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Ashleigh Brilliant was born on 9 December, 1933 in London, UK, is an American cartoonist. Discover Ashleigh Brilliant's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Occupation author and syndicated cartoonist
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 9 December 1933
Birthday 9 December
Birthplace London, UK
Nationality United States

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1933

Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant (born 9 December 1933) is an English-born American author and cartoonist.

1940

He attended Hendon County School, London, in the 1940s–50s.

1960

Part of the counter-culture scene in San Francisco in the late 1960s, Brilliant wrote and sang a series of parody songs about the hippie movement in Golden Gate Park as the hippie movement happened.

Called The Haight-Ashbury Songbook, the songs now appear on a CD collection available on his website.

Brilliant lives in Santa Barbara, California.

1964

He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a PhD in history in 1964 and taught on a "floating university", an educational cruise ship that traveled around the world in the mid-60s.

He later taught at a community college in Bend, Oregon.

1967

During the "Summer of Love" in San Francisco in 1967, Brilliant gave daily lectures near the Haight Street entrance of Golden Gate Park.

He released a live album recorded in Golden Gate Park in 1967 on a small Hollywood, California, record label, Dorash Enterprises (Dorash LP-1001).

The album, Ashleigh Brilliant in the Haight-Ashbury, is quite rare today.

The material uses familiar public domain tunes and melodies and incorporates clever poetic lyrics about marijuana, the Diggers, San Francisco neighborhoods, and his personal experiences, all the while displaying a banter which ebbs and flows with his audience, who respond warmly to the performance and also participate in the songs.

He states in the recording that he had been performing in this setting for approximately two hours each day the prior four weeks.

He laughs throughout his performance, while the audience joins him in singing along and banging on percussive items.

The album ends with a "Haight-Ashbury Farewell".

1974

Brilliant contacted Brinkley about copyright violation, concerned that this friend had been "subconsciously quoting" an aphorism that Brilliant had copyrighted in 1974.

Random House, Brinkley's publisher, paid Brilliant $1000 without contesting the issue.

1975

He is best known for his Pot-Shots, single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks, which began syndication in the United States in 1975.

Brilliant was born in London, England.

1979

In a copyright infringement suit filed by Brilliant, a United States federal judge ruled that while short phrases are not eligible for copyright, Brilliant's works were epigrams and therefore copyrightable (Brilliant v. W.B. Productions Inc., 1979).

While Brilliant employs a self-imposed limit of 17 words per epigram, he has actually written and published 41 with 18 words and one with 19 words.

Once discovered, all these errors were corrected and then re-published.

In a separate 1979 case, a company copied two of Brilliant's phrases – "I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent" and "I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy"—and altered a third phrase, all for sale on T-shirt transfers.

The district court acknowledged that the phrases were distinguished by conciseness, cleverness, and pointed observation, ruling that they were protected by copyright.

All books published by Woodbridge Press (Santa Barbara, California)

1991

For instance, in 1991 television journalist David Brinkley wrote a book, Everyone is Entitled to My Opinion, the title of which he attributed to a friend of his daughter.

1992

The Wall Street Journal described him in a 1992 profile as "history's only full time, professional published epigrammatist".

At one time, there was some confusion and controversy as to the ownership and recognition of his distinctive art form.

1998

In his 1998 book Information Liberation, Brian Martin cites Brilliant as a "professional epigrammatist" who has been known to threaten legal action in order to display his market precedence over legally owned fragments of human language, thus managing to reveal one of the many absurdities behind "intellectual property", namely its ability to limit the free use and dissemination of human expression.

When Brilliant finds someone who has "used" one of his epigrams, he contacts them demanding a payment for breach of copyright.

1999

In 1999 he authored the "Y1K Crisis" article which parodies the "Y2K Crisis" of 1999.