A Mr. John Bair of the Tulsa World has sent a ’shut-up’ letter to Oklahoma blogger Michael Bates. Bair claims Bates is violating the World’s copyright by linking to his newspaper’s website without permission. No, really.
I don’t think the World is dumb enough to sue Bates, but I hope they are. I hope they take their groundless charges right to court. Then the World would be embarrassed, Bates would be vindicated, and he could recover his legal expenses — and punitive damages besides!
Say, never mind suing Bates. Sue me! Look, look, Mr. Bair, I’m linking to the Tulsa World without permission! Lest you think I’m bluffing, I’ll do it again! Don’t bother with the threatening letter; let’s see that subpoena.
You go Sean! Good to have your pugnacious self back.
Tis better to have linked and lost…
In brief, news monopolist Tulsa World created new copyright laws in a letter to Batesline. They claim, and I am not making this up, that he can’t LINK to them! (oops, did I just …)
Of course: by getting a lot of bloggers linking to TulsaWorld (even smart-arsely in spite), you are upping his page rank.
Then of course: I guess he doesn’t realize that, and will threaten to sue more people.
He can now officially be declared a rock-brained fool. I agree…I want to see how the courts deal with this folly.
Tuesday
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I flipped between the local Tulsa newscasts tonight at 10 to see if they would cover this. I mean it is a national story that was featured on CNN and involves the only paper in town. Not a peep. And I’m not surprised either.
ups and downs…
Fresh digs with a good message at the ol’ Fishbucket: “Life is short - make fun of it!”
Thebooge is right – “Gotta love Frank.”
Looks like Radio® still sucks.
And what’s up with all these anti-linking policies?
links are bad, okay?
So sue…
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Blame Sean Gleeson
Don wrote in and asked:What? No breakfast today? Everybody knows breakfast is the most important meal of the day!I’m sorry to anyone who missed a meal. I was going with a piece about the Tulsa paper, but Sean Gleeson did
Small potatas, Gleeson. I’m gonna start linkin’ to Forbes.
HEY~! Just for that, I am linking to your website! And you aren’t getting my virtual moonbat ranter unless you pry it from my bloody dead hand! Virtually!
These are the same kind of people that don’t want information shared freely and open. If they don’t want people linking to their site, they shouldn’t have a site. It’s that simple. Linking is why the internet was created for.
“All men are created equal”