So yesterday morning I wake up to an e-mail about a post I did at MyCrimeSpace a while ago…
This is to inform you that I believe your site is in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, by quoting the majority of our copyrighted article on your site.
The page I am referring to is at: www.mycrimespace.com/tag/jeffrey-scott-bagnall
It contains six paragraphs lifted directly from our story, which was nine paragraphs in length. This goes beyond Fair Use.
Our original article is at: www.thedenverchannel.com/news/11191323/detail.html?subid=22100484&qs=1;bp=t which clearly has a copyright notice at the bottom.
I believe the information above is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, I state that I am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Wayne Harrison
Senior News Editor
TheDenverChannel.com
The story was about an alleged Boulder, Colorado craigslist pimp who was also in possession of child porn by the name of Jeffrey Scott Bagnall.
Now I did all the polite things. I linked to the original article. I blockquoted all the quotes that I thought were germane to the point I was making. Added some content that was definitely my own. I never claimed ownership of the material. But no, some pencil pusher has to DMCA me. I removed the post from MCS only because I didn’t want to drag b5media into it. I even thought about reposting the article in full here but I decided that I’ll be the slightly bigger man.
What this tool doesn’t realize is that blogs and online media have a symbiotic relationship. Media provides bloggers with the news while bloggers provide more readers to the media websites by linking back to them. It seems that some standard media outlets still don’t get it.
I know one thing that isn’t covered under the DMCA. I can say Wayne Harrison is a tool all I want. That and the “Denver Channel” sucks ass. DMCA that, assclown.
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September 29, 2007 at 4:46 am
Alyric
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
The DMCA is draconian, unconstitutional, and tramples all over our rights. Not just the consumers either.
If it were ever equally enforced, it’s worded so broadly and vaguely that some forms of protection used by publishers to protect their content actually violate it.
Ironic, huh.
September 30, 2007 at 3:32 am
ResurrectionSong
I like that the CU Buffs beat the #3 Sooners. Cool. Surprising. Signs of a resurgent CU team? I wouldn't quite go that far yet, but it's obviously going to be a better season than last year. I like the idea of an "eternal net tax ban." I'm not actually opposed to taxes and I do believe that the government at its many different levels does provide services that are valuable and necessary. But taxes are an eternal struggle--to keep politicians and bureaucratic growth…
November 6, 2007 at 2:58 pm
BelchSpeak
He can’t send you shit in an email either unless his identity can be verified. This usually involves a key exchange. You shouldn’t have backed down, but I understand that B5 is actually paying you and its not fair to embroil them in the issue.
I got a lawyer letter from fucking Yoko Ono. Top that one!
November 6, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Trench
You have to tell that story.
November 6, 2007 at 3:17 pm
BelchSpeak
A story appeared on TMZ saying that Yoko ate dog meat as a radio stunt to protest something stupid. I blogged about it and the story turned out to be false. When it was pointed out to me, I changed the story by adding a correction at the top of the article, but leaving the original story in place to show my mistake.
I get letters but I tell the lawyer to get bent. Ironic that John Lennon spent so much time blabbing about free speech before his lead-based trepanation, and now his widow is hounding people to suppress free speech.
“Imagine there’s no lawyers… Its easy if you try…”
And finally, the last of the threats, along with my response here:
http://www.belch.com/blog/2007/06/12/yokos-lawyers-more-annoying-than-yoko/
November 6, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Trench
Everyone knows she doesn’t eat dogs. She lives off of dead beatels.