Posted on 09/19/2003 1:33:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Subject: Copyright infringement
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:27:04 -0400
From: Sean Mills smills@theonion.com
To: webmaster@freerepublic.com
Dear Free Republic,
It has come to our attention that you have published a number of pieces of Onion content at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/onion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/k-onion/browse
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/583819/posts
This material was published in THE ONION and the images you are presenting are being served by our servers. The material that you are publishing was published without permission of ONION, INC. Further, the material is copyrighted. You have infringed on our copyright and we, therefore, demand that you immediately cease and desist from any further use of the copyrighted material and remove the material from your website. In addition, you may not use the material in any other manner whatsoever.
Please understand that we anticipate your full and immediate cooperation in this matter. Also, please understand that we do not hesitate to enforce our rights in these situations.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Sean Mills
Don't neglect "Bubba's Brownies" or the bizarre "HulaBoy" or "Nasty Santa" series.
Trying to offer a bit of insight and discussion, which you are clearly incapable of doing, since I had to read a few of your responses in the thread before realizing that your not happy that a business acted like a business.
In honor of you, I'm going to post very slowly.
Ready?
Are you sure?
The Onion is a business, not a charity.
Did you catch that? If not, I'll repeat once more :
The Onion is a business, not a charity.
If you don't like businesses, capitalism, etc., not too far off the coast of Florida, there is a small island nation that you would greatly enjoy.
If you need an explanation of the difference between a business and a charity, there are several here who own and run their own businesses, and are quite successful. I'm sure if you post a vanity thread about it, they can help you out.
So, copyright only means copyright if it applies to a big guy?
No, of course not.
I think FR got noticed partially because of bandwidth myself - everytime I saw somebody direct-linking a pic into their posts from TO's website, I felt like e-mailing them and saying "hey, you ought to at least host it on your own webspace, they have to pay for that you know". I chose not to because it's not my place to play net nanny.
FR probably got noticed as well because quite a few of The Onion's articles and graphics that were posted here did not cite The Onion.
Googling through some of those other sites, I see many cited The Onion. They may not get letters because they did, but nobody here knows who got letters besides FR.
From Faq at The Onion on linking, etc.
The content of this site is © Copyright 2003 by Onion, Inc. and may not be reprinted or re-transmitted in whole or part without the express written consent of the publisher.
I thought the folks at the Onion were brighter than this.
Our side can't be satirized because the other side doesn't know how. To them, argument, wit, humor, satire, higher education and Great Literature all consist of telling lies and calling names.
Their side can't be satirized either, because no matter how ludicrous, extreme and unbelievable a picture of them we paint, they do even more ludicrous, extreme and unbelievable things in person, and without even being prompted.
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