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To: rod1

Yea Clinton minions went out to find this guy at all costs. It is a bit convenient he's got Obama campaign links. Makes for great watching.


3 posted on 03/22/2007 4:12:31 AM PDT by farlander (Try not to wear milk bone underwear - it's a dog eat dog financial world)
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To: farlander

The Republicans ought to hire this guy.
At least we could be sure that there was at least one person involved with the Republican campaign effort with a brain and a little spine.


4 posted on 03/22/2007 4:15:52 AM PDT by mikeybaby (long time lurker)
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To: farlander; All
It is a bit convenient he's got Obama campaign links. Makes for great watching.

It's a bit more than "convenient" that he has Obama campaign links. Indeed, those links, combined with the intellectual property law aspects of this matter, pretty well prove that he created and published the ad with the full knowledge and consent of the Obama campaign, after careful coordination with and consent from one or more of Apple Computer's lib executives.

Since the Obama campaign's direct links have been disclosed in the article, I'll concentrate on the intellectual property law aspects.

Apple Computer owns the basic ad from which this "derivative work" was produced, the video of the female athlete throwing the hammer, and its own Logo, all of which were heavily used in the ad. If Apple hadn't consented to this use, de Vellis, YouTube, Gooogle, and de Vellis' employer would be subject to a massive, solidly grounded law suit for this extraordinarily blatant copyright violation. Apple, however, has been conspicuous by its deafening silence in a situation where it normally could have been expected to fight tooth and nail to defend its apparently violated copyrights. After all, allowing this use of its material exposes Apple to boycotting by individual Clintonoids and serious retaliation in the government contracting area if, God forbid, the ever-vengeful Witch becomes President.

Nevertheless, Apple's been dead silent. IMHO the only logical explanation is that one of Apple's many high ranking lib executives decided in advance to allow this extraordinary use of two of its IP crown jewels, the 1984 ad and its logo, in a devastatingly effective attack ad against the Witch. That, in turn, means there had to be serious advance coordination between said Apple executive and one or more persons in the Obama campaign.

This theory is further supported by the fact that de Vellis is a 33 year old experienced DemonRat campaign operative who's worked in the media area of a number of campaigns. As such, he had to learn about the pitfalls of copyright law, just as conservatives like Rush Limbaugh and Paul Shanklin have had to. Hence, he wouldn't have created and posted the ad without coordinating with and receiving the approval of both the Obama campaign and Apple Computer.

It really surprises me that the MSM has so far been blind to the whole Apple Computer intellectual property law aspect of this matter when it's probably the key to what happened.

6 posted on 03/22/2007 5:13:42 AM PDT by libstripper (AS)
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