After critical article, conservative nonprofit accuses Raw Story of violat

[Pryderi]

http://rawstory.com/news/2006/After_critical_article_conservative_nonprofit_accuses_0303.html

After critical article, conservative nonprofit accuses Raw Story of violating copyright


The National Center for Public Policy Research, the conservative nonprofit where fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff served as a director, has instructed RAW STORY to remove a fundraising letter the group sent in 2004.

Noland MacKenzie Canter, III, a lawyer for the group, says the publication of the center’s fundraising letter violates their copyright. To many outside Washington, the center is known for being the group that Abramoff used to cover posh junkets for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX).

RAW STORY published the letter in January of 2005. The story it accompanied detailed the effort by the conservative nonprofit to raise money from senior citizens by disguising a solicitation for a political donation under the guise of a “Task Force” to save Social Security.

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Cease and desist came after article linking president, Abramoff client

The call for the letter’s removal comes quickly on the heels of an article raising questions about Ridenour’s role in writing an editorial that favored Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad, a client of Abramoff’s who paid $1.2 million to arrange a visit with President Bush in 2002. At the time of the editorial, Abramoff was a board member of Ridenour's group

[bpilgrim]

1. they are getting scared...

they will never be able to sue all the bloggers/new-media and we have only just begun to fight!


more...
http://GlobalFreePress.com

peace

[NVMojo]

2. the stench from the fear is making me sick!!

[HuffleClaw]

3. "RAW STORY published the letter in January of 2005...

?? and they are whining NOW ??

good look in enforcing it though. its not like they'd want this stuff being made a matter of record in open court. they are clearly bluffing, and doing the usual republican spin that exposing others criminality is the real offence.

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. I know the poor guy can't help what he was named...

but "Noland MacKenzie Canter III" just doesn't inspire the requisite level of fear, y'know?

[1932]

5. Newsworthiness exception. There should be law against people threatening

copyright infringement when they know they don't have a case.

Some jurisdications allow a civil damages award when someone threatens trademark and patent infringement when the claim is made in bad faith.

[izzybeans]

6. This is the same group that fired a former aid to Bush I for writing

book critical of Bush II. He was on Diane Rehm (sp?) yesterday.

[Coexist]

7. has it been re-labeled as "Classified" yet? n/t

[young_at_heart]

8. "Posh junkets", "disguising a solicitation", "arrange a visit with Bush"

Is this what it means to be a Republican now?

[rucky]

9. Between this and the Randi Rhodes lawsuit...

it sounds like the corptocracy has a new way of retaliating.

But I always thought they hated frivolous lawsuits?

:shrug: