Unhinged Cartoonist Has A Cow Over Website [Ted Rall]

Frontpagemagazine ^ | 2-24-05 | DiscoverTheNetwork.org

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Unhinged Cartoonist Has A Cow Over Website

By DiscoverTheNetwork.org
DiscoverTheNetwork.org | February 24, 2005

We received an email from Ted Rall, the cartoonist who called our war against the Taliban a "genocide" and belongs to the Michael Moore-Ward Churchill school of supporters of the Zarqawi "resistance" in Iraq. Rall also made a name for himself by referring to fallen American war hero Pat Tillman as an "idiot." -- The Editors

Here is his email:

From: Tedrall@aol.com

To: david@cspc.org

Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:44 PM

Subject: URGENT: Cease and Desist Notice

Dear Mr. Horowitz:

 

It has come to my attention that you have, without obtaining written or other permission, posted a publicity photograph of myself, apparently copied from my website, to your site Discover the Network (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org). This photograph is copyrighted material. Your act violates U.S. Copyright Law, which provides for damages up to $150,000 plus attorney's fees.

I therefore request that you take the following actions on or before 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Friday, February 25, 2005:

1. Remove said photograph from your website.

2. Agree to remit the sum of $5,000.00 as payment for your unauthorized use of said photograph, with such payment via money order to be received within three (3) business days at my address in New York, New York.

3. Sign a notarized stipulation agreeing not to post my copyrighted material in the future.

 

Thank you for your prompt attention to this urgent matter.

 

Sincerely,

Ted Rall

 

We are flattered to receive Rall's "cease and desist" notice since he has made no such demand to "American Traitor" where the same photo is posted today. We'll just have to guess why Rall finds being posted in a database on the left more offensive than being called a traitor.

The offending profile of Rall can be read here.

 

From: Manuel Klausner <mklaus@aol.com>
Here is our reply:

 

Date: February 24, 2005 2:06:57 AM PST
To: Tedrall@aol.com
Subject: Re: URGENT: Cease and Desist Notice

Dear Mr. Rall,

I represent David Horowitz, and am writing to respond to your email below. I am informed that the "publicity photograph" was not copied from your website, contrary to your surmise. It appears to be in the public domain. If you dispute this, please promptly furnish me with a copy of your copyright registration.

Even if the photo is copyrighted, its use in FrontPageMagazine.com appears to qualify as a fair use. The nature and purpose of the use is news reporting and commentary in an Internet publication for nonprofit educational purposes. The very nature of a "publicity photo" suggests that it is ordinarily intended to be used without obtaining permission in advance. Moreover, it does not appear that the effect of the use would be to decrease the value of the photo, which appears to have been widely circulated in many sources. Accordingly, we believe a court would find this use of the photo to be "fair" under Section 107 of the Copyright Law.

Based on the foregoing reasons, your three requests are hereby rejected. We would be willing to consider any further information you care to provide, including a copy of any copyright registration.

Manuel S. Klausner

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DiscoverTheNetwork.org was created by David Horowitz to track the interlocking network of the far-Left. DTN features in-depth profiles of leftist organizations and personalities, and houses the blog Moonbat Central.

[NRA1995]

Shut up and draw, Ted!!

[SlowBoat407]

P.S., Ted, your cartoons are amateurish, obvious and petulant. Disengage your cranium from your colon and join the world of people who recognize leftist proganda for the pack of lies that it is.

[marty60]

Gee how money hungry and greedy these benevolent lefties are.

[Mike Fieschko]

Good old Manny Klausner. :-)

[Textide]

2. Agree to remit the sum of $5,000.00 as payment for your unauthorized use of said photograph, with such payment via money order to be received within three (3) business days at my address in New York, New York.

Sheesh. Is that request even legal?

[HMFIC]

Ted Rall = Liberal pissant.

Hit the weasel with a nasty gram exhibiting SCHADENFREUDE in his NOT getting the cash.

Well done Mr Krausner

[RogueIsland]

Based on the foregoing reasons, your three requests are hereby rejected.

Pwned!

[HMFIC]

oops, Klausner.

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

On second thought, just shut up.......

[rickmichaels]

Agree to remit the sum of $5,000.00 as payment for your unauthorized use of said photograph, with such payment via money order to be received within three (3) business days at my address in New York, New York.

Horowitz should send $5000 of Monopoly money to said address.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Can you say ''extortion'', boys and girls?

[Steel Wolf]

Ted Rall is hilarious. There's nothing funnier than a bumbling, left wing stooge who takes himself seriously. That's not even taking his 'art' into consideration.

Not that it is worthy of any consideration, mind you. Rall's cartoons are ignorants jumbles of hate soaked scribble. Why he aspires to any sort of mainstream legitimacy is a total mystery.

[standupfortruth]

I think it would be a hoot if we published that picture on the web.... like oh, I don't know...like maybe everywhere?

[PilloryHillary]

What a whiner! LOL! Thanks for the laugh!

[beef]

LOL I guess they really struck a nerve with this one.

I am not an artist. Can anyone who is come up with a caricature of him done in his own style?

[reagan_fanatic]

Mr. Rall, you are a buffoon and an idiot. Petty little actions like this only serve to reinforce the public's image of you as a petty liberal shill.

Oh, and your cartoons suck.

[SirLurkedalot]

LOL $5000 in horse manure!

[normy]

Although I do have a dislike for lawyers, or maybe just the way the system works sometimes, I love it when a smart ass lawyer tries to intimidate and gets smacked down by one smarter that he is.

[jigsaw]

Ted Rall needs a nanny to prevent him from continuously embarrassing himself.