Re: [dvd-discuss] ``irreparable damage to my client''

[microlenz(at)earthlink.net]

I think Ms. Vivian will have a hard time proving defamation of character since 
she was the author (Haven't read it and don't want to....I'll take Scott's word 
for it ;-)...I also find the whole copyright infringment argument to be so lame 
that I hope some  judge just laughs at it. Ms.Vivian seems to think that her 
public conduct can now be repudiated using copyright law. Not so...as for 
cows.net...he doesn't look too stable either...I used the word public conduct 
because she publically put this thing out there. Since in the internet (and 
usenet) the primary means of putting before the public is text, I can't see how 
she has a claim of action.  It's similar to someone who puts a poster out in 
public and later claiming that someone is infinging because they haven't taken 
down the poster that someone put on their property. 

On 27 Apr 2002 at 21:17, Jeremy Erwin wrote:

Date sent:      	Sat, 27 Apr 2002 21:17:05 -0400
Subject:        	Re: [dvd-discuss] ``irreparable damage to my client''
From:           	Jeremy Erwin <jerwin@ponymail.com>
To:             	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
Send reply to:  	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu

> 
> On Saturday, April 27, 2002, at 07:02  PM, microlenz@earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> > THe problem is that Sara  seems to have licensed it to everybody and 
> > now wants
> >  to unlicense it....(and Sara doesn't seem to understand what a 
> > non-de-plume
> > is....)
> >
> I think the idea behind this lawsuit has more to do with defamation of 
> character than anything else. The existence of legal claims against 
> google.com do not necessarily imply that cows.net is being sued.
> 
> Jeremy
>