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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: CPM Legal Settlement Demand Lettter on Behalf of Hawaiian Art Network

« on: January 05, 2012, 03:18:34 PM »

all kinds of tidbits floating around of our latest copyright troll..

http://www.visionmagazine.com/archives/1112/1112_culture_christian_martin.html

http://soulisticliving.wordpress.com/

http://www.adrenalineradio.com/shows/87-think-oneness-radio

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=642765925&sk=wall

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: CPM Legal Settlement Demand Lettter on Behalf of Hawaiian Art Network

« on: January 05, 2012, 03:08:52 PM »

Is it just me, or do all attorneys have an entertainment background??

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/christian-martinen/6/58/160

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: CPM Legal Settlement Demand Lettter on Behalf of Hawaiian Art Network

« on: January 05, 2012, 03:06:47 PM »

Agreed it could be an error, in the meantime heres a link to the NY Bar Assoc. and Mr Martinens' info

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/attorney/AttorneyDetails?attorneyId=5620050

There is no listing for him at the Claifornia Bar Associations site...

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Hawaiian Letters & Lawsuits Forum / Re: CPM Legal Settlement Demand Lettter on Behalf of Hawaiian Art Network

« on: January 05, 2012, 02:57:26 PM »

Great find Lucia, wouldn't it be something if they offered this up and it was not for the image in question!! It's one thing to use scare tactics, but this would be really low, unethical, and truly disgusting!

::EDIT:: that second one you show , mentions a bald eagle.. I'm no zoololgist, but I can tell the difference between and eagle and a skunk!

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Righthaven Lawsuits Forum / Re: Receiver says Righthaven ‘uncooperative’ in surrendering copyrights

« on: January 05, 2012, 02:01:22 PM »

I also see the domain auction has stalled at 1950.00, I say clear out their office of everything, then go after his house, car and anything else available!

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: RIAA case...held to cost of single license fee

« on: January 03, 2012, 06:24:44 PM »

Nobody expects a person or company to just pay some claim without some proof of that claim.

S.G.

Getty fully expects people and companies to pay without asking questions, as do the other copyright trolls Hawaiian Art Network, Alaskan Stock, Masterfile...

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Righthaven Lawsuits Forum / Randazza Files For Contempt Of Court Against Righthaven

« on: January 03, 2012, 02:42:56 PM »

from the you-knew-this-was-coming dept....
This won't come as much of a surprise to anyone following the ongoing battle between Righthaven and Marc Randazza, representing Wayne Hoehn (Randazza is also representing other clients fighting Righthaven, but much of the "action" is in the Hoehn case). The latest is a filing (embedded below) for the court to declare Righthaven in contempt of the court for completely ignoring a court order from December 12th to produce certain documents to Randazza as part of the effort to collect the attorneys' fees that the court has already ordered:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111231/01111117248/randazza-files-contempt-court-against-righthaven.shtml

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Just a quickie!

« on: January 01, 2012, 08:51:34 PM »

I wanted to wish all of our community a Happy New year, may it be propsperous, and that much closer to the SOL!

This community, Oscar and Matt continue to do outstanding work for this cause and you should pat yourselves on the back!

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: RIAA case...held to cost of single license fee

« on: January 01, 2012, 08:40:38 PM »

Great conversation going in this thread. Something else to consider in the advernet case, is the fact that Getty couldn't even show a contract signed by both parties, this just tells me they are somewhat sloppy in general, so I would also believe they would be sloppy in registrations as well as other areas. the letter senders are all college aged interns with no law background and they are "trained" to follow the script. I'm sure Gi is aware that x nuumber of recipients will just roll over and pay the demand with out asking any questions.

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Righthaven Lawsuits Forum / Righthaven sued by process server, faces contempt motion

« on: January 01, 2012, 07:47:00 AM »

As 2011 concluded, problems with unpaid bills continued to pile up for copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas.

Records Saturday showed Righthaven has been sued by its own process server and also faces a request by defense attorneys that it be found in contempt of court.

http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2011/dec/31/righthaven-sued-process-server-faces-contempt-moti/

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Getty Images Letter Forum / 3 strikes for Alaska Stock

« on: December 31, 2011, 01:14:10 PM »

Seems like Alaska Stock has lost a suit, not once but 3 times..

“It is insanity to repeatedly do the same thing and expect a different result.” (Albert Einstein) This applies to the law as well as to physics. (Alaska Stock LLC v. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company et al.)

Alaska Stock – no relation to Sarah Palin – is a stock photography agency. Houghton Mifflin, a publishing company, licensed a number of photographs from Alaska Stock for use in certain textbooks. Subsequently, Alaska Stock asserted that the licenses included quantitative limits, which were exceeded by Houghton Mifflin. Alaska Stock filed suit, claiming copyright infringement.

http://university.generalpatent.com/insanity

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Righthaven Lawsuits Forum / Righthaven Files Emergency Motion To Try To Keep Its Assets

« on: December 30, 2011, 07:59:59 PM »

"I used to think that Righthaven might make a useful law school case study some day, but now I'm wondering if there shouldn't be an entire class studying Righthaven in order to teach lawyers exactly what not to do in handling cases."

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111230/03362917234/righthaven-files-emergency-motion-to-try-to-keep-its-assets.shtml

I couldn't help but snicker and grin while reading Randazzas' answer to this "emergency motion"

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Re: I have 2 questions for everyone

« on: December 30, 2011, 05:58:45 PM »

I'm sure there are plenty of people paying these demands, lest they would not be continuing to send out letters, it makes up a very large part of their revenue.

As far as we know, no one has been brought to court over 1 or 2 images at this time. naturally this can change at any time, but I find it unlikely as far as Getty is concerned.

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Legal Controversies Forum / Re: Actress Suing Amazon for Being "Outed" of her true age

« on: December 29, 2011, 04:00:48 PM »

Theres a really good joke here concerning measurements, But i'll refrain to uphold our professional standards!

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Righthaven Lawsuits Forum / Copyright Office Seeks To Make It More Difficult To Retain DMCA Safe Harbors

« on: December 29, 2011, 07:27:54 AM »

Almost missed this one, but Eric Goldman alerts us to the dozen comments filed with the US Copyright Office concerning its plan to force everyone to keep re-registering their official DMCA agent in order to keep retaining the DMCA's safe harbors. As we've discussed in the past, in order to make use of the DMCA's safe harbors, you have to register an official DMCA agent with the Copyright Office. In fact, we've suggested that anyone running a blog or forum site do exactly that. Many of the companies that were successfully sued by Righthaven (before it was discovered Righthaven didn't really have the copyrights it needed) were caught because they failed to register a DMCA agent. While I think that such sites could make a reasonable argument in court that they still were not liable, it's a lot more difficult (and costly) to do so.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111227/17285417210/copyright-office-seeks-to-make-it-more-difficult-to-retain-dmca-safe-harbors.shtml