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Domain-Name Protest Is Protected Speech
Lunartik links to this Detroit Free Press report, writing "The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled Friday that Michelle Grosse did not violate the law when she used the name of Lucas Nursery and Landscaping Inc. for a Web site she created to complain about the Canton, MI nursery. 'This is a very important case,' said Paul Levy, staff attorney with the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. 'This is a mainstream circuit court that said using the Internet and the name of the company to criticize a company is perfectly legitimate.'"
including the right to spell speech in any way you want: speach spich, Spewoch...etc
What photo should I put up?
It concerns me that this even got this far ... are we going to be validated for everything we say or write - sound's Orwellian.
Dear Mr. Coward:
I represent the owners of the estate of Eric Blair, better known by his nom de plume, "George Orwell".
You may remember Mr. Blair for such tropes as "a boot heel stamping a human face-forever", "the Two-minute Hate", "newspeak", "Animal Farm" and of course, "Big Brother".
What know may not know, but I am now for the record informing you, is that Mr. Blair's Intellectual Property in these and other phrases, including the adjective "Orwellian" itself, has been acquired by The Mouse That Ate The Public Domain, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Corporatism Turns Individuals into ConsumerSheep, Ltd., a division of All Your Base Are Belong To A Few Rich Men and Their Lobbyists, LLC.
As representative of the afore-mentioned corporation, I am writing you to demand that you cease and desist from using the word "Orwellian", or any other Intellectual Property belonging to ny client, except with express written permission.
Should you wish to arrange a limited license to use the word Orwellian -- either on a per use basis, or for a set period --, please contact my office immediately for a rate sheet.
Thank you,
A. Lackey
Law Offices of
Plutocrat, Prevaricator and Politico,
Attorneys at Law
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
Instead of working it out with the woman as in:
Lucas: We'll fix yard, you give us domain
Disgruntled Customer: OK.
They spent all that lawyer money to sue the woman. And all over a job they'd done allegedly done poorly. So now they still haven't made the woman happy, AND the entire world knows about it AND they don't have their domain.
Talk about complete lack of common sense.
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
hahaha, "We're not those 9th circuit wackos!"