The Cabin Boy™ has posted the following tweet concerning me:
I have made no such claim.
I advised Amazon that Chapter Thirteen of My Slow, Journalistic Death appears to infringe my copyright on a blog post. It is my understanding that Amazon has taken the position that the apparent infringement violates their Terms of Service and that the ebook is being removed from the Kindle Store.
UPDATE—
UPDATE 2—
No, it isn’t.
He also stupidly says you are tying to goad him into contacting you. The man does seem to have abandoned all rational thought processes.
Very difficult to abandon that which one has never held.
Ooh boy here go. Prepare for meltdown.
Control, this is Houston. We are go for launch.
Looks like Bill thinks that if he uses the term “Fair Use”, it magically allows him to cut and paste entire posts from someone else’s website. Not surprising.
Big difference between owning the copyright on a portion of a book and OWNING the whole thing, lock, stock and barrel. My request was to request the book be held from release for sale and distribution if my name is used anywhere in the book as I have not given permission for such and I would request the hold for my attorneys to verify that there is no cause for a libel tort prior to publication or distribution.
C&D going out to Smashwords.
Seriously, has CBBS ever heard of the concept of “fair use”, and how it relates to copyright?
You were quite correct, and he’s an idiot on two obvious grounds: first, having infringed your copyright; and second, saying something as stupid as you have claimed “ownership” of garbage.
Most people think “Fair Use” excuses a lot more than it really does. Just search for a music video on Youtube. People will repost clearly copyrighted content with “This is fair use under 17 USC 107. No infringement is intended.” As if that would protect them.
Simply ridiculous.
strangely though, after the book was pulled, the IQ of Amazon went up…
Saw this coming a mile away….
I’m shocked–SHOCKED–that BS would try to make money by stealing one of your blog posts.
What do you mean, “one”?
*snark*
This seems so very fitting….
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnwayne378440.html
Pimp, the quote is priceless! It fits Fatboi perfectly!
It’s not a John Wayne quote. It’s from the novel (and movie) ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ by George V. Higgins.
Bill,
Why don’t you contact your thesis advisor at the imaginary school of journalism you attended along with the PR gut at the States Attorneys office and with the imaginary christmas eve Elf clerk at the judges office…
Tell em you have Parkinsons and you need to be able to steal others property
Maybe they’ll put in a good word with Amazon for him.
I have two questions regarding comments in this thread.
First comment: “he’s an idiot on two obvious grounds…”
Second comment: “Saw this coming a mile away…”
Questions –
1. Only two obvious grounds?
2. Only a mile away?
I wasn’t looking very hard.
Come to think of it, I smelled it first.
As tomblvd says, I was not looking very hard!
Was that nice officer who stopped by the shack the other day – was he in your imaginary class too.
BTW Amazon is reviewing your activities on line….
Including your Twitter stream oops!
Time to show off his big brass ones and go private again!
Thanks for reminding it was time to make another screen cap.
Somebody reported him to the Amazon Police? Ruh Roh. He’s finished now.
I hear they’re nastier than the phone cops.
I feel the doomsday clock coming out! I betting 12 hours; any takers?
Well, we were supposed to get a fancy revamp of his site today, though nothing so far. Maybe the clock can be the new header?
Fatboi is going to blow a gasket-I feel it, the clock is coming out. I just know it is! Especially now!
Hey maybe Librul land will publish more of his posts – no wait…..
??? Is he not still the shining light of Alan Colmes blog? Has his stellar career with Alan gone down in flames or is he still the top of the heap?
I note than only his first two posts remain. All the bigoted “satire” articles are gone.
Heh. Quelle surprise!
And of course, since the Cabin Boy claims Mr. Hoge has just made a terrible, terrible mistake, I suppose now would be an appropriate time to ask:
How are things proceeding? 🙂
I predict:
Looks like he may have violated another copyright. Need to check the gravatar TOS.
Smashwords does not publish inflammatory hate speech books
Whoops!
Heh. 😀
Ooh, a terrible, terrible mistake! So nutty, yet so entertaining.
I love how he’s “hastening his own demise” by reading and reacting to this blog. Like I stated earlier, he just can’t help himself. Nut.
Meltdown of epic proportion commences… now.
I know arsenic is bad for my health, therefore I avoid arsenic. If Hoge’s blog is dangerous for CB, I suggest he take similar precautions.
Or not…
How cute. They’re crowing that the book is back online. Actually, it just hasn’t been taken down yet.
this will not end well for Twinkie should Hoge press his complaint with Amazon….
O.o
DOOM CLOCK!!
Margaret would be so proud. Or is it the Star Trek salt monster?
Uncanny!
Oh, I think it’s gone.
But Gyrff, why? How completely stupid must someone be to crow about it when he can’t be sure what was going to happen. He is so sure of his superiority that he cannot even entertain the thought that he may be in the wrong.
Idiot seems to have been claiming that it went down for a few minutes and then was put back up.
As we now know, he was wrong!
And….
DOOM CLOCK!!!
I feel it too! The clock is coming out!
Considering Rove made the web sites selling CB’s crap remove everything with his image, can’t wait to see what Rove’s lawyers have to say about a “book” on Amazon claiming he gave political access in exchange for sexual favors with a man.
Heh.
The schadenfreude is running wide and deep this evening. 🙂
Yep. Rather like the mythical diversion of two rivers by Hercules when cleaning out the Augean stables …
Bill’s saving grace is – he has to actually sell a book for it to be published libel – so he’s good for a while
Nope. He “published” it the moment he made it available.
I forgot the sarc tag. Rob
Sorry. Hard to pick it up sometimes.
As of 20:45 ET, the book is still
Gone.
It’s a good thing I already got my “complimentary” copy.
Ok here’s the really important question: am I in it?
Milton and all that, you know how it goes.
Yes, that’s a good question. It’s easy enough to go back to the purloined post here on Hogewash to see if one commented, but did he screech at any of us individually? Inquiring minds want to know, and all that. 🙂
I think almost all of us commented on the thread the Oedipal Troll stole, so yes, you get a mention.
As one would expect, Twinkie doesn’t bother to level any criticism at anyone but our host.
For those that are smarter than Cabin Boy, I will explain.
Maybe Cabin Boy’s use of our honorable host’s blog post was “Fair Use”, maybe it isn’t. I don’t care and neither does Amazon.
Why?
Because “Fair Use” is a defense to an infringement action. In other words, in a copyright infringement claim, if the plaintiff can prove infringement then the infringer may still not be liable if they can prove a valid Fair Use defense.
Amazon is uninterested in a fair use defense, because they don’t want to defend an infringement suit at all. That’s why no reputable publisher relies upon “Fair Use” for copying others works into a work they publish. That’s why reputable publishers will obtain permission for any quotes that they use from another’s works. Reputable businesses don’t take the risk except in very very extraordinary circumstances.
Beyond that, you know as well as I that once a human being in Amazon read Cabin Boy’s bizarre ravings, they pulled that crap off their website as fast as they could.
And for the rest of the gang, the problem is not that Cabin Boy snipped the blog post, it’s that he snipped the post, plus EVERY SINGLE ONE OF 107 COMMENTS.
That’s chapter 13…bracketed by about 150 words of literary fear pee. Chapter 13 is not excerpted but cut and pasted entirely from this blog, with a horrible intro and an even more horrible conclusion.
It’s not fair use by even the most permissive of standards.
So which post was it?
Whoah, whoah, whoah.
Comments, too?
Which post is it? I want to see if I can send Amazon a request to pull it for copyright violation, too.
“Are you pondering what I’m pondering” from April 14th. The one about someone who’s written more books than he’s read, with 107 comments.
This one:
http://hogewash.com/2014/04/14/are-you-pondering-what-im-pondering-648/
Oh wait…”Are You Pondering, April 14, 2014″.
So, of all the blog posts he could of stolen…THAT is the one he chose?
I don’t get it.
Wow, so he even stole one of my brilliant comments?
I guess Unca Biwwy owes a few people, including poor “Silly Nancy Gilly” (or is it “Silly Jilly Gilly” or “Silly Nancy Jilly” — he really can’t keep anything straight anymore can he?) an apology. Or three.
It’s been obvious for at least the last six months or more that Bill’s memory issues are getting worse, and so are his cognitive abilities. Some of his otherwise irrational seeming levels of anger at everyone are probably because at least on some level he recognizes this and, who can blame him, it scares the crap out of him.
Why else would he spend so much time trying to prove how smart he is, with constant belittling of anyone who disagrees with him, calling them stupid, and dim, or lacking “intellectual capacity”. It’s partly projection, but it’s also that only by proving to himself that he’s still better than others can he drive that scary demon back into its hiding hole, even if only for a while. He has to keep repeating this, because the demon won’t ever go away, because it’s simply reality.
And of course part of it is just that he’s a world class narcissist, who was probably not told no often enough as a child. If he wants something, it’s his. If someone does something which he doesn’t like, obviously they are wrong, not him. It’s why he can with a straight face tell someone to get off his Twitter timeline, because it’s “rude” if one posts to someone else without permission. How many times has he posted to various Lickspittles’ or Mr. Hoge’s timelines using @ without permission? Same with his ideas of appropriate “journalistic techniques”. OK for him to use, evil and unfair for anyone else.
It’s really amazing what sorts of delusions people can continue to hold in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
That, and he’s an asshole.
True, but it’s not made any better to deal with by the mental deterioration. }8)
Has our host also asked for a takedown at Smashwords? Inquiring minds would like to know.
All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
I knew it!
I should have seen that coming…
Most probably maybe. Was that vague enough?
https://twitter.com/PatOmbudsman/status/458400898306564096
Again, he is such a stupid, stupid man. It’s a wonder how anyone of such small intellect and such shriveled character manages to draw a breath without shouted instructions from his Master Kimby.
Poor Bill. Even his inclusion of actual intelligent content (albeit stolen from this blog including the scintillating comment section) he actually loses out to a DMCA take-down notice and a C&D pending review by attorneys for potential libel tort naming the author, publisher and all distributors …
Poor, poor Bill. So envious, so needy, so pathetic.
……and so utterly alone.
Except for socks, lots of socks …
Nope. Still not there.
“WJJ Hoge III has just committed a terrible, terrible mistake.”
When will Schlunkfeldt realize his threats are as empty as his lobotomized head?
Sadly, I think the answer is never. It would require recognizing reality, and I think he’s too far gone to do that.
^^^^^ This. He makes his own reality where he is some sort of a hero. Take a peek at some of the previews of his books. He is always the superhero. Maybe it stems from the fact that he knows he is weak physically, intellectually, and emotionally. Who knows with the Cabin Boy.
Ahhhh. You don’t often get a bitchslap of those proportions, with such satisfying contact, kinetic transfer and penetration. Leaves you feeling energized and refreshed. Well played. Well played.
Yes, that was most satisfying. I’ll bet Cousin Bill is still stinging from that one…
Don’t steal, Bill – none of the cool kids do it!
should be an interesting morning tomorrow
O.o
I don’t really expect to see much until after lunch. By that point he’ll have figured out how to pretend it never happened or that he actually meant for it to happen, the way a cat does after it’s done something really stupid and inelegant and you’ve laughed at it.
I’m not sure how he’ll sell having meant for it to happen, especially with all his bragging tweets yesterday, but I’m sure he’ll give it the old college try.
Either that, or we’ll have to deal with a wall to wall, hours long pity party with non stop tweets further proving the lie that he can neither type very fast nor speak more than a sentence at a time for his VR software.
Either should be very entertaining. Get the popcorn ready folks.
Or he’ll spend the morning deleting the tweets where he bragged. It’s a toss up. When dealing with the Cabin Boy you never know what path of stupidity he will choose.
I already have the popcorn, soda, and Slim Jims ready to go. Just waiting…
As if those tweets haven’t been screen capped by lots of us already. 🙂
And Frankie for the win! Looks like over 500 are gone since last night….
He is predictable. Always tries to cover the stench of his own vile nature. But as you noted, there are people saving his tweets for posterity. He can run from his stupidity, but he can no longer hide it.
Has Fatboi figured it out yet?
No, and he never will. Two scoops of stupid that one is.
Admiral QuakesAlot would claim that everything is done with the sole purpose of exacerbating his “affliction”.
No, Admiral. That is just a bonus.
He’s prolific though. He released another book. Adding blasphemy to his list of sins, it appears. Such a good Catholic…
Oh, but he claims it’s not what believes, but what Mr. Hoge and the lickspittles (heh, my phone’s auto fill wants to say “lack skittles”) believe.
He has to grossly misrepresent others’ beliefs so he can continue to delude himself that he follows the “true” way.
If he didn’t take such delight in trying to psychologically torture people one could feel sorry for him.
Commander Quaalude tries to be “shocking”. He fancies himself a Howard Stern type.
Minus the brains, money, hair, audience, stability, real house, woman worth looking at. You get the point.
Don’t worry. This latest tome will languish somewhewre for a decade and not garner a single review.
I’m gonna miss him!
I just checked, and amazingly it’s already got two reviews. They won’t help sales much though I fancy.
This is interesting, in his new book, Bill has fobidden the borrowing of his book!
Goodbye libraries.
I’m sure they were all lining up, too.
Actually the dedication, just under the licensing bit is interesting: “To my friends who would probably rather not see their name in print so close to mine”.
Who wants friends who don’t want their names associated with you?
So, has he convinced Amazon that it can’t be part of the Kindle lending library? Not that I imagine it would be one of the more popular titles. }8)
Journalistic Death is back, under a new title over at lulu.com (Brain Dead (How my killers are using my own brain to murder me) http://bit.ly/1hlgHLu.
It’s like playing Whack a Mole, though that’s more fun.
Fatboi will never hear of an editor? Damn thing still has misspellings and how, in the hell, are people going to click links in a hard cover book???
He’s a professional editor! How dare you question his abilities! /sarc
I think we rushed him. By taking down the smashwords edition, he just had to get his journalistic brilliance out there for the masses, and couldn’t be bothered to take the time to fix piddly little issues like that. *snerk*