[mdittmar]

So,your point is?

[aposiopetic]

I salute you.

[Grampa Dave]

Bob thanks for your excellent clarification!

Since you brought up the quarterly fund raisers/Freepathons which enable Jim to keep this wonderful site open. Here is a link to the current Freepathon Fund Raiser site:

Freepathon Holidays are Here Again: Let's Really Light Our Tree This Year, Official link: (Freepathon Holidays are Here Again: Let's Really Light Our Tree This Year!, thread #2)

For regular snail mail donations:

FREE REPUBLIC, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794

(link for monthly credit card donations)

(Reindeer says that Pay Point works here to!)

[RonDog]

Thanks for posting this!

WHEN can we expect the 9th Circuit to hear our appeal?

[alcuin]

I don't get it. Are you saying FR "owes" a million, but there won't be an effort to collect it, or any part of it?

[Roscoe]

...Margaret Morrow, a Clinton nominee, whose appointment was held up for a long time by Republicans due to here obvious left wing opinions.

And the Los Angeles Times repeatedly editorialized for her confirmation during that delay. Her decision was a payoff.

[GeronL]

give money to FR

FreeRepublic , LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794

Partnership for a Dem Free America

[Bogey78O]

Isn't this a collosal conflict of interest for the judge? Imagine how the left would be having a field day if the roles were reversed. They would be up in arms burning effigies of the conservative judge calling them Nazi's and demanding their 1st amendment right.

[lavaroise]

Fair use shmair use. All I say is that people can protest in the streets with copied articles of the papers. A free protest site is just that, freedom of speech and dissent about what is written in the press.

If people have to pay copyrights to protest a copyrighted thought, then we are on the highway to hell and mind control. Don't you dare learn by heart this LATime article, you could be violating a copyright.

[ICU812]

Thanks for this post, I've been wondering about this stuff.

But what happened to Clarity?

[AmericaUnited]

If FreeRepblic is an LLC, why not just pull the plug and declare "corporate" bankruptcy and then open up another LLC, which would be a new, distinct legal entitity. That way, the $1,000,000 judgement would get flushed into never, never land.

All of the existing posters would instantly move to the new site. Why not?

New web site name: www.FreeRepublic2.com

[HighWheeler]

Thanks for the info, Bob. Sounds like this news will be squelched by the media for a host of reasons, not the least of which would be all the publicity for FR.

[BRL]

As you all know, the Washington Post and LA Times sued FR LLC and Jim to stop it from posting full text articles. The basis of FR's attorneys defense rested on the fair use clause. Unfortunately, Jim drew probably the worst judge he could...Margaret Morrow, a Clinton nominee, whose appointment was held up for a long time by Republicans due to here obvious left wing opinions.

Are you implying that as a patriotic, constitution loving American that you can ignore the law as long as it goes against your own personal beliefs and as long as the law has been tainted by a ruling from a liberal judge?

Excuse me, but our CONSTITUTION (the thingy we hold in such high esteem here) has specific rights given to the owners of inventions and writings. Furthermore, whether we like it or not, the case has been decided - WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF OUR COUNTRY'S CONSTITUTION. FR lost. It is in for apeal. FR may win there or may lose (I would have to say they will probably lose). However, your attitude, which is displayed in your post, is the very thing that our constitution was written to gaurd society from. You feel that you have a moral right to discount the law as long as a someone you disagree with was the judge that interpreted the law or wrote the law.

Our society is based upon laws, not upon the whims of the person who stomps their feet the loudest.

[Texbob]

Screw the judge! No she may look like Hillary. Just ignore her, there is nothing she can do about it except cry about her Clinton's getting beat up on.

[Mudboy Slim]

Keep up the good work, my FRiends...MUD

[francisandbeans]

Heya Bob:

What happens if the appeals lose out and they (WP/LAT) come after JR for the million? (I don't beleive that they are wooried about bad press...afterall JR is just another racist conservative pig in media circles)

Will he ask freepers to pony up the cash? Would the quarterly goal become 130K in donations then? Is this even attainable?
Would Jim rob consider bankruptcy?

I think it would releive some of us to know what the plan is, at least within the framework of the best/worst case scenario.

[Silly]

The weakness in WP/LAT's case, in my humble and legally-uninformed opinion, is that every else in the whole wide world lets us -- and everyone else, it seems -- post entire articles. It seems to be the industry standard.

[winodog]

My question is what happened to clarity? If it isnt something to be announced on this thread maybe someone can freepmail the answer.

[Exigence]

Thanks for the helpful info.

[boycott]

I go to several different sites that link newspaper articles. I go to a sports forum everyday and numerous newspapers are linked. I don't see why Free Republic was singled out.