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It's Official: LAT/WP vs Free Republic Settles
LAT/WP vs Free Republic ^ | June 19, 2002 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 06/19/2002 1:54:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

I just received official word that our settlement with the LAT/WP in their alleged copyright infringement and unfair competion suit against Free Republic (click Source link above for complete history of the case) is completely finalized with the court. I do not have a copy of the final order yet, but the basic terms are as follows:

I will post the entire final order including the list of related publications as soon as I receive a copy and get it scanned in.

Well, my fingers are not cold and dead and my keyboard has not been ripped away. While this is not entirely a win for FR, neither is it a crushing defeat. Free Republic is alive and well and the fight against liberalism continues on. It's a crying shame that the hallowed words of the WP/LAT will no longer grace our pages, but, somehow, I am sure we will manage to live on without them.

And despite what our detractors may say, we have not committed any crimes or broken any laws and we have not admitted to any guilt. We have negotiated a mutual agreement and settlement with the LAT/WP and have agreed upon satisfactory terms for continuing forward without having to spend the rest of our lives in court.

Many thanks to all of you for your past and continuing support.

Regards.

Jim Robinson



TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freerepublic; latwp; lawsuit; losangelestimes; sanfrancisco; washingtonpost
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To: Jim Robinson
Great News! Congratulations Jim and thank you for continuing to fight the good fight! Very Cool!
181 posted on 06/19/2002 2:45:47 PM PDT by cascademountaineer
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To: Jim Robinson; John Robinson
BTW, I love this little ditty by the Brain Surgeons over at the AFhole site....

There are so many strange things said on FR that we need a thread just to capture the silly, strange, odd, comments from the Freakers. Here's the first. I'll include it in context.

Originally Posted by John Robinson http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/701149/posts You now have the ability to add keywords to existing articles. In the KEYWORD column, click "Add Keyword" to access the form. You must be logged in to use this function. For security and cleanup duty, keywords added via "Add Keyword" are logged with your user id, though currently only moderators can view this information (though that may change in the future.)

Use this feature as an ad hoc topic system and replacement for the deprecated bump list register.

They then go on to mock your use of the word 'deprecated', John, claiming that you are a moron and do not know how to use the word correctly.

Meanwhile, I am laughing my a&& off, because as a senior programmer, I encounter the word all the time. The dictionary even says:

Said of a program or feature that is considered obsolescent and in the process of being phased out, usually in favour of a specified replacement. Deprecated features can, unfortunately, linger on for many years. This term appears with distressing frequency in standards documents when the committees writing the documents realise that large amounts of extant (and presumably happily working) code depend on the feature(s) that have passed out of favour.

But you never should expect the AFholes to exhibit any intelligence, that's for sure. :o)

182 posted on 06/19/2002 2:46:01 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Cool Guy

Jim, he's not dead!


183 posted on 06/19/2002 2:46:14 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: Cool Guy


184 posted on 06/19/2002 2:46:22 PM PDT by Billie
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To: Jim Robinson
but, somehow, I am sure we will manage to live on without them

Yes, and live on quite nicely, I am certain.

185 posted on 06/19/2002 2:46:43 PM PDT by TheGrimReaper
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To: Jim Robinson
It's a crying shame that the hallowed words of the WP/LAT will no longer grace our pages, but, somehow, I am sure we will manage to live on without them.

Who needs 'em anyway? It's not as if most of the news they print can't be found in some form somewhere else! Congratulations!

186 posted on 06/19/2002 2:48:33 PM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: Jim Robinson
BUMP!
187 posted on 06/19/2002 2:49:08 PM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: CaptRon; Jim Robinson; Cool Guy; Mama_Bear; All
Freepteenth.

I think ya got it CaptRon! : )

(Or, written - FReepteenth)

188 posted on 06/19/2002 2:49:50 PM PDT by American Preservative
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To: kayak
Thanks for the ping to this good news. It is great news, actually.
189 posted on 06/19/2002 2:50:16 PM PDT by whoever
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To: Jim Robinson
... Free Republic agrees to pay the Los Angeles Times $5,000 and the Washington Post $5,000 (these negotiated amounts have already been paid).

... While this is not entirely a win for FR, neither is it a crushing defeat. Free Republic is alive and well and the fight against liberalism continues on.


I am VERY pleased that the court battles and worries accompanied with it are over for you, Jim.

But you'll have to forgive me Jim, I'm confused with your reply above. With all due respect, I'm sincerely interested in how one hand, as you admit above, this is indeed (sad to say) a defeat for Free Republic and yet this settlement not a complete defeat for the Fair Usage clause which, if I am not mistaken, was the original premise this was fought under ?
190 posted on 06/19/2002 2:51:15 PM PDT by pyx
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To: Jim Robinson
Nothing like dragging home from a mundane day at work to news like this! YAHOO! I will raise a cold and frosty mug of Pilsner Urquell to the Robinsons and the legal team this evening as a toast to your success!



191 posted on 06/19/2002 2:51:46 PM PDT by who knows what evil?
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To: Jim Robinson
Good news! Thanks for posting to let us know :-)
192 posted on 06/19/2002 2:52:09 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: Jim Robinson
Congratulations, Jim!
193 posted on 06/19/2002 2:52:33 PM PDT by browardchad
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To: Jim Robinson
Glad to hear this news, and happy to know this thing is not hanging over your head any longer. Congratulations!
194 posted on 06/19/2002 2:53:57 PM PDT by RJayneJ
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To: Jim Robinson
Congratulations. The settlement seems very sensible from the standpoing of all concerned.
195 posted on 06/19/2002 2:54:16 PM PDT by ned
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To: Jim Robinson
Congratulations on the finalization of this ridiculous piece of litigation. The liberals will try anything to stop real political discourse. You and the other freepers are to be congratulated on your stand.
196 posted on 06/19/2002 2:54:30 PM PDT by bonesmccoy
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To: Jim Robinson
Good News! Still seems to me that this was nothing but harrassment, but... Go FR Go!
197 posted on 06/19/2002 2:55:18 PM PDT by hattend
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To: knco
It's the community that JR has built that is what's truly remarkable.

My bold, daring and ill conceived little proposal is that if someone feels compelled to post some news item to the group, and that item is mandated to be linked and not pasted, then the poster is responsible for archiving it for later exploration. I'm sure we can work some off FR line data base out with a Headline, date, source, Title and Freeper to be contacted independent from this forum if the subject needs to be revisited. Perhaps just saving it in our own Favorite Thread area, even though the link is dead, will help us identify the Freeper who posted the original piece and who should be contacted to independently send over the in-no-way-FR-authorized-approved-or-sanctioned text of the usually offending article.

If it's not worth saving for the forum through your own individual effort and on your own personal WORM optical drive or Tandy cassette player, it's not worth posting in the first place.

I, for one, am praying for a cease and desist order from Lew Rockwell.

198 posted on 06/19/2002 2:55:19 PM PDT by ArneFufkin
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To: Just another Joe
Thanks, Joe!

BUMP

199 posted on 06/19/2002 2:55:24 PM PDT by SheLion
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To: Lazamataz
Hey it's just too bad Clarity wasn't coherent enough to settle this long ago.
200 posted on 06/19/2002 2:56:13 PM PDT by Solson
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