MUSIC: Theme. Intro and fade under.
NARRATOR: Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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NARRATOR: You’re a Detective Sergeant. You’re assigned to Internet Detail. A group of bloggers have been writing about the activities of a paroled domestic terrorist and his associates. One of his associates is taking the bloggers’ writings and including them in online attacks on the bloggers in violation of their copyrights. Your job … document the infringement.
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ANNOUNCER: Blognet … the documented drama of an actual crime. For the next few minutes, in cooperation with the Twitter Town Sheriff’s Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the good guys through an actual case transcribed from official files. From beginning to end. From crime to punishment. Blognet is the story of the good guys in action.
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SOUND: Footsteps in hallway.
FRIDAY: It was Saturday, April 19th. It was warm and clear in Westminster. We were working the day shift out of Internet Detail. My partner’s Liz Smith. The boss is Twitter Town Sheriff, W. J. J. Hoge. My name’s Friday. It was 8:04 am when I got the Department Conference Room for a briefing.
SOUND: Door opens.
SHERIFF: Morning, Joe. Want a cup of coffee?
FRIDAY: Yes. Thanks, boss.
SHERIFF: There’re bagels on the table by the pot.
FRIDAY: No, thanks. I had a big breakfast.
SOUND: Coffee poured.
SHERIFF: Suit yourself.
SOUND: Door opens.
SMITH: Good morning, boss. Hey, Joe.
SHERIFF: (Simultaneously with Friday) Morning, Liz.
FRIDAY: (Simultaneously with Sheriff) Hi, Liz.
SHERIFF: Grab a cup of coffee.
SMITH: Thanks. Oh, good! Bagels.
SHERIFF: Yeah. Grab one and pull up a chair.
SOUND: Coffee poured. Chairs pulled out from table.
FRIDAY: What’s up?
SHERIFF: Over the past couple of days, we been getting complaints about some of the stuff that Parvocampus has been putting out.
SMITH: Well, he does tend to exercise his First Amendment right to be a jerk.
SHERIFF: Yeah, but it appears that he’s moved beyond his usual range of … I guess you’d call it “jerkiness.”
FRIDAY: How’s that?
SHERIFF: Yesterday, he published another one of his books. It’s up in ebook format on Amazon and a site called “Smashwords.” There’s not much new material in it. It’s mostly an anthology of old stuff from the Internet.
FRIDAY: Uh, huh.
SHERIFF: We’ve received complaints overnight that a significant part of the content has been ripped off from bloggers. I want you two to take a look through the book to see what Parvocampus has used.
SMITH: OK, but why?
SHERIFF: Possible copyright violations. Do you think he sought permission to use anyone else’s work?
FRIDAY: This may be another example of the rules not applying to Parvocampus.
SMITH: What do you mean?
FRIDAY: Parvocampus has upset a lot of people. Given his history, it might actually have been easier for him to have gotten permission that it will be for him to get forgiveness.
MUSIC: Stinger and under.
FRIDAY: When we got back to our office, we obtained a legally-purchased PDF copy of Parvocamus’s book. Liz and I each took one half of the book to review.
3:27 pm
SMITH: OK, I’m done with a first pass. I’m ready to go over what I’ve found whenever you are.
FRIDAY: I guess I’m done too. Whatcha got?
SMITH: This first half is mostly recycled stuff he wrote under his Illiberal Goofus persona. He’s lifted a great deal of material from that Stanley fellow from Texas we helped last year.
FRIDAY: Uh, huh.
SMITH: But it’s nothing he hasn’t published before. Some of it might pass a Fair Use test, but I’m not sure all of it would. What have you found?
FRIDAY: The last chapters are essentially complete ripoffs of other bloggers. He’s made a few snarky comments, but he’s taken entire blog posts and recycled them.
SMITH: Whole post?!?
FRIDAY: Yep. Take a look at this chapter. It looks like he’s taken a four- or five-thousand word post from The Real McCoy and used it. I checked, and he didn’t ask for permission.
SMITH: Whew!
FRIDAY: Yeah. That’s a significant screw up for someone who claims to have real world editorial experience.
SMITH: We’d better write this up.
FRIDAY: Uh, huh. The boss will want to forward the information to the bloggers affected. Then we’ll see how if the rule applies.
SMITH: You mean … ?
FRIDAY: Yeah. We’ll see if he gets any forgiveness.
MUSIC: Up and under.
NARRATOR: On April 20th and 21st, copyright infringement notices were transmitted to the sellers of Parvocampus’s book. In a moment the consequences of those notices.
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NARRATOR: On April 20th a copyright infringement notice was sent to Amazon. On April 21st, a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice was sent to Smashwords. Late in the evening of the 21st, Amazon removed the ebook from their catalog. On the 22nd, Smashwords dropped the ebook from their catalog. Willful copyright infringement can result in the award of statutory civil damages of up to $150,000 per infringing act.
MUSIC: Theme up and under.
ANNOUNCER: You have just heard Blognet, a series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice comes from the office of the Twitter Town Sheriff’s Department.
MUSIC: Theme up to music out.
ANNOUNCER: This is LBS, the Lickspittle Broadcasting System. Blognet is a work of fiction. Anyone who thinks it’s about him should read Proverbs 28:1.
Interesting how ParvoCampus seems to think the only bit that anyone complained about was the blog post which was a “single sentence”. He never mentions the other blogs and bloggers. I wonder why? (Not really.)
Liar?
Him lie? Say it ain’t so!
That, and they don’t have Lickspittles for him to rant about? And he doesn’t seem to have quite the personal hate for some of the others that he does for Our Host. Maybe he assumed none of them noticed either, so if it hadn’t been for us meddlin’ kids….
“assumed that none of them would have noticed either…”
I really need to do better previewing, or else an edit button!
because that was the main one us “lickspittles” were pointing out so I think he assumed he “got away” with the others…
remarkable how non harassing he has been the last few days, I hope it lasts
O.o
It won’t. He’s already libeling Mr. Puzio from NJ on Amazon, and posting on P=O about him. I wonder how he’d feel about a summons from NJ? }8)
He’s also missing the fact that as far as I can tell the copyright holders of all those blog comments he copied were technically the writers of the comments. (http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/copyright-of-comments?replies=4) So the 15-20 or so of us commenting there could also have each sent a DMCA request. Many of us had far more text than the original post. I certainly didn’t get a request for permission to use my stuff!
Just the facts…
I’d really like to know how he figures “LS” is, um, that other poster, tomblvd.
(innocent whistling…..)
HA!
Another patented Schmuckfeldt Dox Fail
tomblvd? Never heard of him.
But say. Let me introduce you to my “excellent” new friend Perfect Tommy!
Can’t wait until Baghdad Blob doxes “Perfect Tommy”!
Willful copyright infringement can result in the award of statutory civil damages of up to $150,000 per infringed work in lieu of actual damages.
FIFY
Remember the good old days when the Cabin Boy wrote this gem?
They Just Aren’t Worth It
Post in Wingnuts on February 17, 2014 by Bill Schmalfeldt.
I’ve asked my friends on Twitter and elsewhere to stop telling me every time WJJ Hoge or one of his lickspittle spaniels makes a loud farting sound. Unless someone is making a direct threat to me or my family, I frankly don’t care.
Hoge and his gang of idiots have already done everything they can legally do to me, and I’ve beaten them. Now, I will sit and blog and report and write about my friend Brett Kimberlin as he beats them to death with their own words.
I have no interest in continuing any court battles with Hoge or anyone else. And despite his recent gut rumblings threatening to draw me into his lawsuit, I need only remind the reader how well it worked for Hitler when he decided to invade the Soviet Union. Pulling me into the lawsuit would be a blunder of that proportion.
I happen to know of developments that are underway that I cannot as yet report on because I do not wish to influence the outcome. When those developments have been settled, you will read about them here.
In the meantime, I will continue to expose irritants, pulling them off my body like ticks. Parasites like Chris Heather, Bettina Haper, Grady the Henpecked Hubby, and the soiled diaper that is “Antvq16″ will continue to be sprayed with the disinfecting mist of “Exposure” and the cleansing of sunlight.
To all others, there is a simple rule you must follow. If you don’t annoy the bear, he will not bite you.
My, my. Of course in that piece alone, he’s said he’s going to ignore all Lickspittles, and then says he’s going to keep targeting certain people, including Lickspittles.
Logic is so not his strong suit.
Right now he’s crowing about how his latest “book” is #9 on the Amazon list of best selling books on disability law. And he’s dropped the price. I wonder how he’ll feel if Vanderbilt were to go after him for intentional copyright violation, since he admits on his blog that he’s doing it willfully. That could be a pretty damn hefty statutory fine there. Even the minimum fine is $750 + costs, which with a decent laywer (which I’m sure Vanderbilt has) could easily be far more than the fine itself.
Does he really want to find himself facing that sort of financial burden, just so he can “stick it” to someone?