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FunnyJunk Sues the Oatmeal Over TM and "Incitement To Cyber-Vandalism"
eldavojohn writes "You may recall from last week the news item concerning FunnyJunk's extortion ... er ... threat of defamation lawsuit against The Oatmeal highlighting a fairly pervasive problem of rehosting content — in this case web comics. Instead of expediting a payment of $20,000 to FunnyJunk, Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal decided to crowd source the money (with 8 days left he has only garnered 900% of his goal) and donate it to charity after sending a picture of it to FunnyJunk. Charles Carreon (the man who has FunnyJunk) has made statements of Inman saying 'I really did not expect that he would marshal an army of people who would besiege my website and send me a string of obscene emails.' In an interview Carreon says 'So someone takes one of my letters and takes it apart. That doesn't mean you can just declare netwar, that doesn't mean you can encourage people to hack my website, to brute force my WordPress installation so I have to change my password. You can't encourage people to violate my trademark and violate my twitter name and associate me with incompetence with stupidity, and douchebaggery. And if that's where the world is going I will fight with every ounce of force in this 5'11 180 pound frame against it. I've got the energy, and I've got the time.' Well it appears that Carreon has filed suit over these matters alleging 'trademark infringement and incitement to cyber-vandalism.' Speaking of douchebaggery, Charles Carreon curiously fails to mention that he first incited all of his users to harass The Oatmeal anyway they can which they dutifully did. One last juicy detail is that Carreon is also suing the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society to which Inman's crowd sourced money is going. Luckily, Inman's lawyer appears to be fully competent and able to address Carreon's complaints."
"Carreon is also suing the National Wildlife Federation and the American Cancer Society"
That can't be good for business
I see what you did there! Nice.
captcha: excites. Lol.
No, only you can do that. ;)
Musk needs a safer hobby than Twitter. Fire juggling? Cage fighting? Solo hot air balloon trips?
Where everything always turns into a complete shitstorm.
fun place.
Admit nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter-accusations.
I need to file a patent on frivolous lawsuits. I know exactly how I'd word the letter announcing my intent to protect my IP.
"Yo dawg, I heard you like to sue, so I'm suing you for suing, so you can go to court for going to court..."
There's a spot in User Info for World of Warcraft account names? Really?
So you're saying Funky Junk is worse than cancer?
In other news, cancer has decided that the enemy of its enemy is its friend and has thus teamed up with FunnyJunk. The resulting entity has not yet been named, but FunCancer is currently favored.
Submitter here. I forgot to mention in the summary he's also the lawyer for FunnyJunk.
My work here is dung.
Cancerjunk was rejected on the grounds that they might face trademark conflicts from Lance Armstrong.
Too Soon?
I don't know who FunnyJunk or TheOatmeal are, and this article doesn't inspire me to find out.
Korma: Good
You may recall from last week the news item concerning FunnyJunk's extortion ...
Charles Carreon has filed suit in California court against Slashdot, alleging that an article appearing on the site defamed him by characterizing his lawsuit agains The Oatmeal as "extortion."
When reached for comment, Carreon stated, "They like to hide behind this claim that their content is all user-generated, but that certainly doesn't obviate their responsibility to... oh, fuck."
To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
5'11 180 pound frame
Pfft. Is that supposed to be impressive? My wife is 5'4 and 200 lbs!
Note: She was 120lbs when I met her though.
PS: i'm depressed.