Posted on 01/22/2010 11:59:02 AM PST by Jim Robinson
He believes himself to be much more clever than he really is.
You said;"That sentence doesn't even make sense."
The way I read it, is Jim blocked or banned some posters from that site from being able to post on Freerepublic. So now that site owner is going to get even by suing Jim if anyone posts his blog articles onto Freerepublic.
It is truly ironic to have a guy who claims that Fair Use allows him to post copyright material on his website without permission of the copyright holder to then turn around and threaten FR for having someone post HIS material on FR. This is too precious. If Gannet or the NY Times or WSJ goes after Salvato, he will have just cooked his own goose with this email to Jim.
Personally, while I do seek to obey copyright laws, and certain am against making money off other living persons writing without permission, I feel that anyone who offers material for viewing on the Internet should do so under a Creative Common license that allows unlimited copying and sharing, as long as the source is noted, and content is not changed.
Some sites do not even allow copying yet it is unreasonable to think you can offer anything on the Web and not have it copied more than once, as your hard drive already has a copy of it before you save an article.
What this New Media Journal did is not only almost incredible, considering they are supposed to be an ideological ally, but it is counterproductive to both their purpose and message. After all, suing your allies for freely spreading a message helped make America strong.
But what bothers me more is Christian ministries who make you a criminal if you share their own self-created material for free, at your material cost, from sermons to songs, or otherwise restrict its dissemination. Sure glad the Bible can yet be had without copyright restrictions in this country, and that its writers did not charge or otherwise restrict for what God gave them.
I guess he sure showed you, huh Jim!
What a maroon...I hope you zotted him while you were at it....
“So I take it this guy reads FR alot?”
Probably coming here to steal stuff for his frick’n’ blog.
Seems like a humble self-effacing guy....
Blop pimps.
I had a run-in recently with that iloveamerica guy.
The one who posts the 10 words from his Dittos Rush blog.
Just so you will click it and give him blog-hits.
Anyway, I told him it’s bad enough that he is a blog-pimp, but when he steals content from reputable news sources, then that is WAYYYYY too much.
And you let him post that crap here on Free Republic.
This lame-a$$ threat today is maybe a sign of things to come? I still maintain you and the mods nees to kick butt on the out of control blogger issues here at FR.
JMO.
What part of "Banned" don't you understand?
Did he do the sanctimonious, self-pitying, passive agressive reply thing with you? What a turd.
It takes a lot of gall to post copyrighted material, get called on it and threaten someone else for what you've done. He appears to be a special kind of genius.
A Super Genius....
Not to worry. By the time their stuff is 70 years old we should have this little misunderstanding straightened out. I’ll lay off until then.
( I don't know why, but that Sarah-ism drives the elitists of either side into a drooling frenzy... )
If they don't want more people reading their "stuff," it's OK by me.
I agree. The blogging bit has gotten out of hand. There will be a news article posted and for the next 3 days the same thing posted by blog after blog with their spin of it. Mind numbing.
He’s been on “The O’Reilly Factor” ? LOL.
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