News & Media
Jessica Valenti doesn't understand the Streisand Effect
By J. DeVoy Imagine if there was an online database of killers, child abusers, bigots, rapists and liars – and they were all women. Now there is! Register-Her.com, a project started by Paul Elam, a men’s rights activist and contributor to The Spearhead, uses a wiki-style webpage to consolidate locally and nationally reported facts about women whose documented wrongs range
Dog Shooter SLAPP Suit Shot Down
By Marc J. Randazza It’s an all-too-common scenario: A blogger criticizes someone online, and then gets sued for his statements. But two things make this case unique: First, the plaintiff sued because of the blogger’s characterizations of him shooting two dogs at close range; second, the defendant blogger was in Florida – and thus protected by Fla. Stat. §
Righthaven Hit with Third Fair Use Loss Over R-J Material
Vegas Inc., June 20, 2011 Reviews the District of Nevada’s decision in Righthaven LLC v. Hoehn, — F. Supp. 2d —, 2011 WL 2441020, which dismissed Righthaven’s case against Hoehn for lack of standing and, in addition, found that Hoehn’s use of a full Las Vegas Review-Journal article in a discussion forum as non-infringing fair use. Read more…
Righthaven suffers new setback
I am not going to comment extensively upon this, since Myself and Jay DeVoy of Randazza Legal Group are counsel for the defendant. However, I will share that Righthaven filed suit against a guy for posting a news article into a newsgroup. We felt that this was fair use. We moved for summary judgment, and while that motion was pending,
Rep. Steve Cohen on SLAPPs
Representative Steve Cohen, the Legal Satyricon’s favorite Congressman (source), provides an editorial in Roll Call on SLAPP litigation and the Dan Snyder case (prev. blogged on here).
Open letter to Mr. Bardamu: Why won’t you pay for porn?
By J. DeVoy On Ephemeral Notebook, Ferdinand Bardamu – skilled writer and friend of the blog – writes that Kayden Kross’ takedown of pirates won’t make him stop stealing porn. While “stealing” is an emotionally charged word, and copyright infringement laws only affect uploaders on bittorrent, tubes and file locker sites (assuming, very generously, the latter two are DMCA compliant),
Being beta is bad for you
By J. DeVoy A recent conversation led me to contemplate how destructive being beta is – for the body, for the wallet and for the soul. Regular readers should not be surprised by the proposition that the “dark triad” personality characteristics of narcissism, machiavellianism and psychopathy attract women. Newcomers and naysayers should ponder why their women friends are always complaining
Grady Judd, at it again, in America's Wang
By Marc Randazza Following a three-month-long investigation of Theresa and Warren Taylor – Theresa being better known as “Kimberly Kupps” – the Polk County sheriff arrested them both on charges of promotion and distribution of obscene material. The crime? Creating pornography in their own home, then selling it both on their paysite and the popular distribution site clips4sale.com. (Source.) Sadly,
Bloggers Mull Legal Action Against Righthaven
“This is a situation that I have to admit I’ve never before confronted in my career, where a party so clearly did not have standing to bring a case, yet it had settled with so many people,” Marc Randazza, a Miami attorney who represented about a dozen litigants who settled, said in a telephone interview.Read More…
Corbin Fisher Awarded Porn BitTorrent Judgment
Dispels the commonly held misconception that bittorrent copyright infringers can expect to pay minimum statutory damages of $750 if caught pirating adult video content.Read more…
Righthaven PWNED — District of Nevada finds Righthaven lacked standing to sue
By Marc J. Randazza Today, in Righthaven v. Democratic Underground, Case No. 2:10-cv-01356 (D. Nev.), the court held that Righthaven does not have standing to sue Democratic Underground – and hundreds of others – based on the Strategic Alliance Agreement (“SAA”) Righthaven entered into with Stephens Media LLC – previously reported here. As we predicted, Righthaven has no right to bring
Protected Expression or Privacy Violation — Discuss…
(Source) Acceptable third alternative: Crazy-ass zombie cannibal worshiper needs something better to do with his time.
"kill a cop cop, kill a cop"
By J. DeVoy [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqILx78oNww&w=560&h=349] I would not believe this if I didn’t hear it myself. Apparently genres have ceased to exist and death metal, long the province of epic tributes to satan and the abyss’ total darkness, now espouses murdering law enforcement officers – normally the subject matter of aggressive rap, Irish tavern songs (Whiskey in the Jar) and
Democrat shaming strategy beginning already
By J. DeVoy In addition to last month’s anemic job growth, other numbers are mounting up against Barack Obama. In particular, the youth who handed him his 2008 victory, are slowly deserting him. With 85% of the class of 2011 moving back into their parents’ basements, it’s easy to understand why. Yes, the president doesn’t control the economy, but he
Reps. Lee and Weiner: The case against pay dating sites
By J. DeVoy While normally totally useless, Congress has taught us quite a bit about online dating. Namely, paying for it is a fool’s game. Chris Lee trolled for women and transsexuals on Craigslist. Weiner, now infamously, used twitter and facebook to set up his fwb’s. I have no judgment about what these men did or liked, other than believing
Wingsuit Flying
By J. DeVoy [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bJmVJZbmIk&w=560&h=349] via Ferdinand Bardamu at his new NSFW project, Ephemeral Notebook, a collection of short rants, cool links and naked ladies.
Google Creates DMCA Time Machine
by Jason A. Fischer Until now, Google has managed to keep its development of a working flux capacitor under wraps, quietly rolling out the ability to send DMCA notices from as early as January 1, 1900. In other news, archeologists today announced the discovery of new cave drawings that include a text ad for Viagra.
Don't listen to other people
By J. DeVoy If I had listened to the advice of other people over the last five or so years, I’d have levered up and bought a house, gone to the local law school, started running marathons and stopped eating meat. In short, my life would have been ruined — actually and definitively ruined, stuck in an underwater house within
Well wrap me up in semen and diamonds and lick me
by Tatiana von Tauber Supermodel Naomi Campbell is insulted at being compared to Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Bliss chocolate as in this ad. She’s considering legal action at its racist tone. If Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Bliss were white chocolate and compared to a white supermodel, I wonder if racism would come into the interpretation zone. Sexism might as who doesn’t love
The PROTECT IP act – a new name for COICA with the same uselessness for adult entertainment
By J. DeVoy I’ve previously written about the futility of federal proposals to further regulate the internet for copyright infringement. Fellow blogger and colleague Ron Coleman – who participated in a really awesome brief with Marc and I – took note of my prior musings about this topic, focused on the failed Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, or COICA.
