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Title: Inquisitr Ltd. Complaint We Received.
Source: [None]
URL Source: [None]
Published: May 12, 2016
Author: Bryant Gergeres
Post Date: 2016-05-12 21:40:45 by A K A Stone
Keywords: None
Views: 9950
Comments: 34

Hello,

Please investigate the following complaint within 96 hours to avoid a disruption in service. If we do not receive a response, we are legally required to act.

Linode is in receipt of a verified complaint under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in connection with the below-pasted details from Bryant Gergeres, Authorized Agent of Inquisitr Ltd regarding materials that are allegedly infringing upon the complainant's intellectual property rights.

You must remove access to the material immediately. If you do not, Linode must remove or disable access to the material expeditiously under federal law; this will require us to power off your Linode in 96 hours unless you comply.

Whether you remove the content or we power off your Linode, you are legally permitted to file a counter-notice with us under the DMCA. This notice must comply with 17 USC 512(g)(3), and we are legally required to communicate it to the complainant on your behalf. If you choose to file counter notice, you may restore access to the material within a certain time period unless the complainant brings legal action; further instruction will be provided if you opt to do so. Do NOT restore access to the material until directed.

Please note that Linode has only passed on the complainant's notice and has not sought to determine whether the materials in the complaint do indeed infringe upon the complainant's intellectual property rights. The full text or the complaint as received by Linode follows.

Harold Phillips Linode Support Team

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To Whom It May Concern,

My name is Bryant Gergeres and I am the authorized agent of Inquisitr Ltd. A website your company hosts (according to WHOIS information) is infringing on at least one copyright owned by my company.

Numerous articles were copied onto your servers without permission. All of the search returns at the following search link infringe upon our copyrights: libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/latestarticles.cgi

As you can see, there are several pages of results. Your client's Web site is automated to steal our content. With such a pervasive violation of my company's copyrights, I ask that, in addition to disabling the links copied below in this DMCA takedown request, you consider further action against your client's account.

A sample of the original articles found on page one of the above-copied search link, to which we own the exclusive copyrights, can be found at: 1. www.inquisitr.com/2216087...-the-path-of-degradation/ 2. www.inquisitr.com/2510140...e-says-its-illegal-video/ 3. www.inquisitr.com/1692212...vage-judged-new-commands/ 4. www.inquisitr.com/374041/...mas-passport-application/ 5. www.inquisitr.com/2494892...in-guangdong-china-video/ 6. www.inquisitr.com/225978/...-for-6-hours-after-death/ 7. www.inquisitr.com/366921/...el-with-alleged-mistress/ 8. www.inquisitr.com/2080866...d-at-university-of-texas/ 9. www.inquisitr.com/2453102...ishap-at-campaign-speech/ 10. www.inquisitr.com/1782509...st-like-the-nfl-patriots/

The unauthorized and infringing copies can be found at: 1.libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=40556 2. libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=42560 3. libertysflame.com/cgi- bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=36847 4. libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi? ArtNum=32880 5. libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=42446 6. libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=29699 7. libertysflame.com/cgi- bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=32774 8. libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi? ArtNum=39696 9. libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=42138 10. libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=37308

This letter is official notification under Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (”DMCA”), and I seek the removal of the aforementioned infringing material from your servers. I request that you immediately notify the infringer of this notice and inform them of their duty to remove the infringing material immediately, and notify them to cease any further posting of infringing material to your server in the future.

Please also be advised that law requires you, as a service provider, to remove or disable access to the infringing materials upon receiving this notice. Under US law a service provider, such as yourself, enjoys immunity from a copyright lawsuit provided that you act with deliberate speed to investigate and rectify ongoing copyright infringement. If service providers do not investigate and remove or disable the infringing material this immunity is lost. Therefore, in order for you to remain immune from a copyright infringement action you will need to investigate and ultimately remove or otherwise disable the infringing material from your servers with all due speed should the direct infringer, your client, not comply immediately.

I am providing this notice in good faith and with the reasonable belief that rights my company owns are being infringed. Under penalty of perjury I certify that the information contained in the notification is both true and accurate, and I have the authority to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright(s) involved.

Should you wish to discuss this with me please contact me directly via email reply at bgergeres@gmail.com.

Best regards Bryant Gergeres Authorized Agent Inquisitr Ltd


Please use https://manager.linode.com/support/ticket/6213422 to respond to this ticket.

Thank you, Linode.com


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#9. To: A K A Stone, atrist formerly known as tater, chicom disinfo agent (#0)

www.inquisitr.com/2494892...in-guangdong-china-video/

Are these from the artist formerly know as tater? He's probably the only one here who would lovingly quote the chicom gov propaganda, in response to something Ron Paul said.

Hondo68  posted on  2016-05-12   22:29:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: hondo68, A K A Stone, All (#9) (Edited)

www.inquisitr.com/2494892...in-guangdong-china-video/
Are these from the artist formerly know as tater? He's probably the only one here who would lovingly quote the chicom gov propaganda, in response to something Ron Paul said.

Not I, you dumbass. I know how to comply with copyright laws. Just so you will be a little smarter, but never as smart as I am, I will post some information to help you understand copyright ... what you can and can’t do when posting.

The following is excerpted from: Blogger Law - 12 Important U.S. Laws.

Copyright in the Web:

1. Copyright applies to the Web.

2. Your work is protected under copyright as soon as it’s created and protected for your lifetime, plus 70 years.

3. Copyright expires. When copyright expires, the work becomes public domain.

4. Ideas can’t be copyrighted, only the result tangible expression of the idea can. (updated)

5. You may use logos and trademarks in your works.

6. You may use copyrighted material under the “fair use” doctrine.

7. You may quote only limited portions of work. You may publish excerpts, not whole articles.

8. You have to ask author’s permission to translate his/her article.

9. The removal of the copyrighted material doesn’t remove the copyright infringement.

10. If something looks copyrighted, you should assume it is. (updated)

11. Advertising protected material without an agreement is illegal.

12. You may not always delete or modify your visitors’ comments.

You should never treat comments as though you own them by manipulating them or deleting them without having included a terms of service which gives you permission to do so. Consider that if you are allowing anonymous posts you will have no way of verifying the true owner of a comment when someone emails you asking for you to take a comment down. Consequently, you should make sure to at least collect basic identifying information before allowing someone to comment or post on your site.
13. User generated content is the property of the users.

14. Copyright is violated by using information, not by charging for it.

15. Getting explicit permission can save you a lot of trouble. 16.

Gatlin  posted on  2016-05-12   22:52:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: Gatlin (#11)

6. You may use copyrighted material under the “fair use” doctrine.

7. You may quote only limited portions of work. You may publish excerpts, not whole articles.

Before LP started up, or maybe shortly thereafter, I researched the case that FR lost in the suit raised by the LATimes and, I think, the Washington Post.

From that I gleaned that what qualifies as "Fair Use" is not cut and dry. There are four basic criteria that are each weighed in favor of the plaintiff and defendant, and where the most weight falls is how the judge should rule.

Whether whole articles or only a portion is reproduced is only one of the 4 criteria, so it's possible to reproduce a whole article and still be on safe ground with Fair Use.

FR was using the entire articles, and though FR did lose the case, it was a close call with the 4 criteria evenly split between FR and the newspapers. Going against FR was it's pretty obvious for-profit practices of significant fundraising for site operations and, I think, advertising as well. LF has neither of those going on.

I will say that when posting articles that contain links to images from the source site, that there is a bandwidth draw on the source site to send those images to visitors that are reading the LF (or alternate) site, and that technically that could cause a monetary expense from the source site to support the bandwidth. However, these days bandwidth is so cheap there may not be any cost at all for the source site to support that, particularly on a forum that is not exactly competing with BBC or CNN. Still, for what it's worth.

I would certainly maintain that, in the case of LF, source sites benefit from the publicity of the links, so that these complaints may do the source site more harm than good.

Pinguinite  posted on  2016-05-13   1:17:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Pinguinite, Gatlin (#15)

FR was using the entire articles, and though FR did lose the case, it was a close call with the 4 criteria evenly split between FR and the newspapers. Going against FR was it's pretty obvious for-profit practices of significant fundraising for site operations and, I think, advertising as well.

It was not really a close call on the FR case.

FR claimed to be a non-profit and the court found it to be a for-profit business. FR operates as an LLC, a Limited Liability Company, in which profits pass through to the members.

The court handed down a $1 Million judgment against FR which was set aside as part of the settlement agreement.

COURT DOCUMENTS from the FR case:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/266069327/LA-Times-v-Free-Republic-CACD-98-7840-Docket-Report

https://www.scribd.com/doc/266069666/LA-Times-v-Free-Republic-CACD-98-7840-Doc-73-ORDER-by-Judge-Morrow-GRANTING-Plfs-Motion-for-Partial-Summary-Judgment

https://www.scribd.com/doc/266069864/LA-Times-v-Free-Republic-CACD-98-7840-Doc-91-ORDER-Granting-Ptfs-Motion-for-Summary-Jgm

https://www.scribd.com/doc/266070060/LA-Times-v-Free-Republic-CACD-98-7840-Doc-105-FINAL-JUDGMENT-Free-Republic-permanently-enjoined-and-restrained-1M-statutory-damages

https://www.scribd.com/doc/266070226/LA-Times-v-Free-Republic-CACD-98-7840-Doc-119-STIPULATION-and-ORDER-for-Entry-of-amd-Final-Jgm-by-Judge-Morrow

nolu chan  posted on  2016-05-13   1:56:18 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: nolu chan (#16)

I skimmed through the primary opinion and I'm confident it's the same case I went through what must be now 14 years ago. It seems it's not quite what my memory tells me but I've already learned to appreciate how memories change.

Thanks for posting it.

Pinguinite  posted on  2016-05-13   15:34:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: Pinguinite, Gatlin (#28)

Just for the record, here is where the court determined Free Republic was a for-profit limited liability company.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/266069666/LA-Times-v-Free-Republic-CACD-98-7840-Doc-73-ORDER-by-Judge-Morrow-GRANTING-Plfs-Motion-for-Partial-Summary-Judgment

Page 5: [footnotes omitted]

B. Defendants' Profit Or Non-Profit Status

The parties dispute whether Free Republic is a for-profit or not-far-profit entity. Despite this purported disagreement, it appears uncontroverted that Free Republic is presently a for-profit limited liability company. Free Republic's corporate counsel is currently preparing documents seeking tax-exempt status for the Free Republic Institute, a company incorporated on September 27, 1999. Nothing has yet been submitted to the IRS, however, and tax-exempt status has not been granted.

Re Fair Use factors, see page 11:

In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include -

(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;

(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

nolu chan  posted on  2016-05-13   16:15:36 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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