This is the kind of shit that makes you want to stop blogging:
The details are in the extended entry to this post. I spent a good portion of the weekend working on the response, background legal research, and collecting screen caps.
As much as I’d like to fight this; the story is now in the archives and ancient history. It seems sort of pointless to worry this much about a thumbnail picture to a story that was yesterday’s news.
I’m open to advice though…
Update: Rather than remove the picture, I just removed the face and replaced it with a question mark.
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Ouch!
{insert odd reference to ‘slice & dice’ here}
Souns like a case-in-point for a collective blogger attorney business. Exchange free advertising for legal services?
Wow. Bravo.
Far too often people are intimidated into giving up their rights by the threat of unjustified lawsuits. Much too often, people are unaware of those rights.
Was the e-mail you sent a pre-prepared boilerplate?
Is there some guide that bloggers can get so they too have the legal facts to toss back to would be intimidators, and can be sure that they are complying with copyright law?
Shawn I wrote it myself, that’s what took so long. Feel free to borrow whatever you want.
I got an actual letter from an attorney the other day saying I was violating copyright by using some poem. I couldn’t find it on my site anywhere.
I sent the attorney an email telling me that, given the nature of the site, I’d need a URL of the actual page that has the poem. I haven’t heard back.
Amazing, on one hand there’s a butcher who is trying to make money on the crime he committed, and on the other hand is a shark trying to threaten you because you are giving free copy to his client.
It’s enough to make you scratch your head and wonder what the hell is going on…
You are a nicer man than me.. My first reply would have contained the letter F and U. If they mailed again, my second reply would be to give them my attorney’s name.
Since parody is well-covered by the first amendment, maybe you should stop being strictly informative.
Parody is “fair use” as well. However, I don’t know if sarcasm counts as parody per se.
This Vegas guy should realize that currently, there are at least 10 people that now know who lana is, and that is exactly 10 more people than there was prior to Kevin’s posting. She may have now achieved international fame…
That OJ thing is hilarious. Why can’t he just keep his mouth shut, hang out in Miami, and never show his face again? Is it that hard to live off a 4 million dollar pension that civil judgments cannot reach? Does he really need to resurface to do a TV show? And does it really have to be one based on the thoroughly exhausted concept of a hidden camera? Further, doesn’t OJ recognize that if he is popping up from behind bushes saying to unsuspecting people “you got juiced,” he is probably going to scare the living hell out of them? And that noone will laugh, but just be really creeped out? I guess it really can’t get any worse than it already is. Or can it?
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