FreeRepublic Case in Appelate Court Next Week

An anonymous reader submits: "ETHER ZONE is running this article about the court case between the Los Angeles Times / Washington Post and FreeRepublic, LLC, which hosts the conservative politcal forum FreeRepublic. On Monday, February 11, the 9th District Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will convene to hear oral arguments in the ongoing copyright case. At issue is the propensity of FreeRepublic.com and its owner, Jim Robinson, to allow the posting of whole-length articles from news organizations nationwide onto his server--a policy the Post and Times, respectively, assert infringe upon the intellectual property rights of both the news corporations and of individual writers."

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[ThePilgrim]

Having read what Jim Robinson is aleged to have posted. It would seem he has the same mind set as those he claimes to dispise.

He claims that Free Republic was set up in order to allow people to report and discuss the issues of the day with out hinderence. Then as soon as the USA gets one terrorist attack he supends the rules and declairs that decent will no longer be tolerated.

Comming from the other side of the Pond, yes I am British, this smacks of the knee jurk reactisonism we have come to expect only from our politishions.

If Jim was in the UK I'd say he was gunning for a knighthood, do you have an equivalent over there?

Any way I think he'll loose this one on the grounds that he has cencerd some of the posts so his argument about not being able to cencer others don't stand up.

Of cause when G. doublya Bush gets to hear about this he might want to do somthing to help.

Watch this space.