How can you say no?
As you may well remember, Ted �I hate Bush more than Osama� Rall tried to hustle David Horowitz and FrontPageMag for a quick $5K last week for using a picture of him, that he said was copyrighted, at Horowitz�s new site Discover the Network that details the left wing loonies, their circles of movement and their funding sources.
If you read the account from last week, Rall got bitchslapped in a very legal sounding �Piss Off!� from Horowitz�s lawyer, who asserted that the photo is in the public domain and that Teddy has no copyright and therefore no copyright coverage and that �Discover the Network� was OK to use it under the �Fair Use� clause.
At his own blog, Rall responds,
�I don’t know if or where Manuel Klausner went to law school, but I like to rely on the ever-useful Glamour Models website for legal advice.�
OMG! The guy is basing his picture�s legal status from something he found on a modeling website and making fun of a corporate lawyer at the same time. This is going to be funny, I can tell already!
�Oh, and am I going to provide a copy of my copyright registration to this jerk? Hell, no, because whether or not I have one I still own that copyright as I own the copyright to the contents of my entire website. But he’s welcome to find out, in court, whether or not I have one.�
So basically, you�re walking to the copyright office today to get signed up, right Theodore?
�One thing he should know, however, is that I don’t bluff.�
That is just about all you do, Rall. Grow up or go HST.
What an idiot, it’s either copyrighted or not, and it’s not hard or complicated to do or to prove, but you can’t do it after the fact – and even if it is, once out in the public domain it pretty much becomes fair-use under a wide variety of circumstances. You’d think a cartoonist with any brains would know something about copyrights, but not this nitwit.
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