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« Last post by Mulligan on Today at 05:58:41 PM »Good post, SG!
Even at my advanced age, I was unfamiliar with the phrase "Assuming argenudo" and at first thought it had something to do with Argentina, Tango, and perhaps love making requiring strenuous or agile positions.
But then, because I'm now a diligent legal scholar -- thanks for the motivation to learn intellectual property law from the copyright trolls at Getty Images and their outside counsel Timothy B. McCormack -- I visited Wikipedia and learned that...
Arguendo is a Latin legal term meaning for the sake of argument. The phrase "assuming, arguendo, that ..." is used in courtroom settings and academic legal settings to designate provisional and unendorsed assumptions that will be made at the beginning of an argument in order to explore their implications. Making an assumption arguendo allows an attorney to pursue arguments in the alternative without admitting even the slightest possibility that those assumptions could be true. Often, these assumptions would be that the facts or legal arguments endorsed by a hostile party were true.
This seems to me to be more smoke and mirrors and manipulative fear tactics from the largest image company in the world to extract huge payments with an extrajudicial business scheme that's morally worse in my mind than using a gun in the dark of night to rob unarmed victims.
And, like most bullies, Getty Images and its troll Timothy B. McCormack prey on the small and weak. Of course they lack the balls to try to pull this sort of thing on a company that has its own legal department.
In this regard, I almost choked on my upper denture when I first read last year in my initial settlement demand how Getty Images wanted to "amicably settle this dispute between our two companies." Ha, what a freaking laugh that was... the largest image company in the world versus my little mom and pop website.
That may have been my very first "assuming argenudo" moment, and in my ignorance I didn't even know it!
Assuming argenudo does sound sexy, though, doesn't it?
Pass the Viagra.
Even at my advanced age, I was unfamiliar with the phrase "Assuming argenudo" and at first thought it had something to do with Argentina, Tango, and perhaps love making requiring strenuous or agile positions.
But then, because I'm now a diligent legal scholar -- thanks for the motivation to learn intellectual property law from the copyright trolls at Getty Images and their outside counsel Timothy B. McCormack -- I visited Wikipedia and learned that...
Arguendo is a Latin legal term meaning for the sake of argument. The phrase "assuming, arguendo, that ..." is used in courtroom settings and academic legal settings to designate provisional and unendorsed assumptions that will be made at the beginning of an argument in order to explore their implications. Making an assumption arguendo allows an attorney to pursue arguments in the alternative without admitting even the slightest possibility that those assumptions could be true. Often, these assumptions would be that the facts or legal arguments endorsed by a hostile party were true.
This seems to me to be more smoke and mirrors and manipulative fear tactics from the largest image company in the world to extract huge payments with an extrajudicial business scheme that's morally worse in my mind than using a gun in the dark of night to rob unarmed victims.
And, like most bullies, Getty Images and its troll Timothy B. McCormack prey on the small and weak. Of course they lack the balls to try to pull this sort of thing on a company that has its own legal department.
In this regard, I almost choked on my upper denture when I first read last year in my initial settlement demand how Getty Images wanted to "amicably settle this dispute between our two companies." Ha, what a freaking laugh that was... the largest image company in the world versus my little mom and pop website.
That may have been my very first "assuming argenudo" moment, and in my ignorance I didn't even know it!
Assuming argenudo does sound sexy, though, doesn't it?
Pass the Viagra.