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Quickies: RIAA v the People, Blogger v Two Sisters, some guy v Gizmodo, the world v the subway wanker

Law firm Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP works through the EFF to defend RIAA-accused filesharers (and those who own filesharing computers). They launched a Blogspot blog, Recording Industry vs The People, about “the RIAA’s lawsuits of intimidation brought against ordinary working people.” [via BB]

Burningbird reminds bloggers to help with the hurricane, you’re not the Red Cross.

Gizmodo disobeys a cease-and-desist.

Lindsayism covers a cease-and-desist from Blogger sent to A Tale of Two Sisters, claiming they stole copyrighted material here, here, and here. Lindsay says it’s because the Two Sisters parody Stephanie Klein’s Greek Tragedy. So okay, that’s fully legitimate and legal, especially since I can’t find any directly lifted sentences. (Incidentally, someone should code an open-source plagiarism detector that I could run a URL through.) Blogger has to stop this vigilante C&Ding, especially if it always omits what actual content was stolen, from whom, and who complained. Otherwise, it’s just Guantanamo justice: assumed guilty, given no right to trial. And that’s death to free expression.

So if you feel someone’s stolen your content, first talk to them directly.

Blogcritics is as worried as I am about the subway wanker vigilante journalism. Post includes the memorable term “trial-by-Flickr”.

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This entry was posted by Nick Douglas on Monday, August 29th, 2005 at 12:15 am and is filed under Flickr, Gawker Media, Lindsay Robertson, Liners, Stephanie Klein. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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