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Author Drops Copyright Case Against Scribd Filter
natehoy writes "Apparently, monitoring for copyright violations is not in itself a copyright violation, lawyers for Elaine Scott decided. As a result, they have dropped the lawsuit against Scribd, who was being simultaneously sued for allowing copies of Scott's work to be published, and retaining an unlicensed copy of the work in their filtering software to try and prevent future copyright violations."
What do you even say to that kind of idiot?
"Case dismissed."
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The ______ Agenda
The deposition goes like so:
Plaintiff's attorney: Are you blocking users from uploading content belonging to my client?
Defendant: Yes.
Plaintiff's attorney: How?
Defendant: We compare uploaded items to a copy of the book on our server.
Plaintiff's attorney: I see. And did you pay for it?
Defendant: What?
Plaintiff's attorney: This book, that you have on your server.
Defendant: Uh, yes. We bought it at Borders and scanned it in.
Plaintiff's attorney: Did you buy a license to make an electronic copy of the hardcopy you purchased?
Defendant: A what?
Plaintiff's attorney: (makes a note).
Defendant: Aw, shit.