[garbanzo]

I hate to be the one to ruin the party by mentioning the somewhat weak legal merits of this suit but from what I read CAIR seems to be within fair use guidelines. For those of you who emote rather than think, consider the ramifications of this if Savage wins and the win is upheld on appeal.

Free Republic is a site that uses excerpts from copyrighted material and raises money via fundraising drives - do we really want copyright holders to have a legal precedent which gives them the right to go after groups which use fair use material for fundraising purposes?

[ovrtaxt]

I don’t think it’s the same thing. Our excerpts and articles have links to the source material- That’s above the line between articles and user posts. Material in user posts are distanced from FR by disclaimer.

These CAIR clowns took bits of recorded material out of context and made a fund raising commercial out of it.

[bluefish]

You know, I figured fair use would be a viable defense...

If savage can get to trial though, he might still be able to force the naming of the financial backers.

Savage could lose the suit, which wouldn’t bother me at all for the reasons you specify, but still achieve the stated goal of exposing who is really behind CAIR.

That is all I care about.