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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
Can I get a ruling? And this time I mean that literally. You established your reductio ad absurdem, now I have a right to establish mine. You agree that you'd exclude songwriting credits, right? So now we'll see how far the line must move before the artist's bragadoccio is seen as a statement of truth. I'm guessing your line stops at Will Smith, while I go all the way up to Wu Tang.
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No, I wouldn't agree that I'd exclude songwriting credits. Because judges are supposed to rule on admissibility, not weight. And in your absurd examples, the weight is zero, unless the Def can give some really good explanation of why he so deeply feared harm from the writer of Karma Chameleon.
eta: At most I'd sustain a relevance objection, but that's not what we're talking about and I think that you understand that. Although your reference to hearsay causes me to question that, honestly.
