Posted on 08/21/2013 1:39:48 PM PDT by Nachum
The National Security Agency, the secretive federal department under fire for spying on U.S. citizens, is now accused of crushing the free-speech rights of a businessman clowning around about the NSA.
LibertyManiacs.com, a company that markets “freedom products for liberty lovers,” says the NSA is using a claim of copyright infringement to stop it from selling T-shirts and other products making fun of the Big Brother agency.
“Two months ago the NSA’s lawyers came after our parodies of the rogue agency and forced our host to take them down,” the company said Friday on its Facebook page.
At issue is use of the NSA logo, which was partially altered by LibertyManiacs owner Dan McCall. He kept the name of the agency and most of the artwork intact, but changed the bottom portion from “United States of America” to the laugh-inspiring “Peeping while you’re sleeping.”
Underneath the doctored logo is the phrase “The NSA, the only part of government that actually listens.”
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This is obviously meant to harass the business owner and to force him to spend his money to defend himself.
Its long been tested in the courts that unless you protect your IP, you will loose it.
NSA has been called NSA since the ‘60s and was often called “No Such Agency”
NSA has no (tm) so it can’t be claimed to be copywrited.
That's actually pretty good.
Looks like the snoopes are big crybabies.
“Looks like the snoopes are big crybabies.”
The fish stinks from the head first
I so wish I’d thought of that.
“How can the federal gooberment copyright something. It’s the work product of our taxes. We’re gonna need more rope.”
Yeah, no joke. We OWN them, so we can do with what they have like it was our own. It is. The gvnmt cannot “own” a copyright: it belongs to all the tax payers.
And yes, we are going to need a lot more rope... And ammo... (Assuming you can find any...)
Whole lot of crap this thug ass group from chicago does that is illegal.
But hey obammy is partially black So SHUT up
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“Two months ago the NSA’s lawyers came after our parodies of the rogue agency and forced our host to take them down,” the company said Friday on its Facebook page.
Hmmm! It seems the vermin have run out of actual work.
I just went on Zazzle and made a t-shirt that says “The NSA: the only part of the government that actually listens”.
I included no logo or anything — just the text. I’ll report back as to whether they print it or reject it.
A more or less Copyright Free way of handling this would have been to take the design completely over the edge....and leave the chios fall where they might.
That’s a pretty good joke:
What’s the only part of our government that actually listens to us?
The NSA.
Censored by the Criminal Government...
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