On 5/4/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Fred, why do you presume it could? In theory, maybe,
but we're
certainly not the richest target (Youtube/Google, anyone?), we're far
from doing the least to stop it being posted gratuitously (Youtube
again, not to mention Slashdot and hundreds of thousands of others
-deliberately- publishing it), we're not revealing anything (it's
already out there, it can no longer, in any reasonable way, be
considered a trade secret),
This has nothing to do with trade secret law.
we're publishing it for educational
purposes (rather than just for grins or in an undisguised
flip-em-the-finger attempt),
Strangely if you can figure out a way to make money out of the second
two your legal case might be stronger than one involving educational
use
and we're a PR nightmare (You think suing
dead grandmas and soldiers about to leave for Iraq for having some
mp3's got some bad press? You ain't seen nothing yet...).
"The website that messed up the Seigenthaler article and declared
various living people dead now lends a helping hand to movie
pirates..."
Interesting PR nightmare.
Overall,
even if they decided to go after -someone- (which would be petty and
vindictive at this point anyway, and hopefully one could expect a
judge to recognize that), we're pretty far down the list of "tempting
targets". (We'd also make a pretty sympathetic defendant, and they
don't like sympathetic defendants, especially when the case in
question is something of a "test case").
We are big. You go for the big targets
There's something wrong, Fred, when an educational
resource is scared
to publish (or even mention in discussion besides oblique references
to "that key" or "the number") a -numeral-.
Um we delete numbers all the time. We delete child porn images from
time to time. Those are just numbers when you come down to it.
But must we be pushed around so easily
(and without anyone even having to do any pushing, just the hint they
might!), when there is a good case for use of this numeral in some
articles?
Yup. We stay legal. We create free stuff by bypassing copyright and
other IP law completely.
And if you insist on poltical activism:
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly"
(supposedly Abraham Lincoln).
--
geni