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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: SpookBrat
Miss you too, SpookBrat. Next time ya'll come to Texas, lemme know and
maybe we can get together again !

541 posted on 06/20/2002 2:17:53 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: All
I...I...I don't understand it. Does this imply there other other sites on the internet outside of FreeRepublic? ...and they don't like us?
542 posted on 06/20/2002 2:29:58 AM PDT by Caipirabob
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To: Jim Robinson
HALLELUJAH!

For Answered Prayers!

Thank You JimRob and Family for All that You've Done.

It was well worth the long struggle.

LET FREEDOM RING!

543 posted on 06/20/2002 2:53:44 AM PDT by Simcha7
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To: Jim Robinson
It would have been nice if they had been more interested in journalism, but it's good to have this out of the way, at least.
544 posted on 06/20/2002 3:32:06 AM PDT by LantzALot
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To: ArneFufkin
Everybody is doing their part to exchange commerce and create value and prosperity EXCEPT FREE REPUBLIC. We're freeloading. We're the exploiters of other people's labor. WE'RE STEALING THEIR PROPERTY

As a result of Fr, I have added umteem links to sites with advertisements. These are sites I would not have known about except for FR. FR should charge theses writers and news sources for giving their precious work wide spread exposure to the public. Because of FR, I have purchased books I would not have been aware of otherwise. FR should get a royalty for those book sales.

You have it wrong, FR is not stealing their property, FR is adding value to it.

545 posted on 06/20/2002 3:55:53 AM PDT by CWRWinger
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To: Jim Robinson
I'm glad it's finally over Jim. Thanks for perservering!

Mike

546 posted on 06/20/2002 3:58:52 AM PDT by MichaelP
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To: Jim Robinson
/;-)

Very happy for you and us. Thank you for fighting the "good fight". It has been a long time coming.

547 posted on 06/20/2002 4:04:22 AM PDT by ImpBill
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To: JohnHuang2
Thank you John, this is very good news.
548 posted on 06/20/2002 4:06:31 AM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: Jim Robinson
Thanks.
549 posted on 06/20/2002 4:10:12 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: maxwell
LOL....Thanx Bud!
550 posted on 06/20/2002 4:11:04 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: Jim Robinson
Thanx, for all the aggravation you put up with,
and Keeping this place going...Does a Day ever pass,
when we can just not despise elitist liberals a little more
than we already do??????
551 posted on 06/20/2002 4:16:38 AM PDT by hobbes1
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To: ArneFufkin
IT'S NOT FREE! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Its free by virtue of it being accessable for no cost. I can't step outside and read the news but I can walk to the corner library and read papers from around the country. For free.

And, I can discuss them with my friends. For free.

You see, if they didn't want their stories read with no exchange of cash, they wouldn't post them in such a way that poeple could read them that way.

FreeRepublic and sites like it are nothing but the extention of the library function. Its a non-profit site. It carries articles and allows anybody to read them for nothing. It allows its community members to comment on them. Tell me this; if libraries have been doing this for years and years, why isn't the LAT/WashPost sueing them?

552 posted on 06/20/2002 4:23:48 AM PDT by meyer
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To: ArneFufkin
<>That's beyond stupid. "If they didn't want me to take all the newspapers in the box, they should just dispense them one at a time." "If 7-11 doesn't want their merchandise shoplifted, they shouldn't display it out in public." "If the theatre didn't want me videotaping the movie, they shouldn't have projected it onto a big screen right in front of me." "If they didn't want me to pump gas and split, they shouldn't have put the pump so far from the cashier and allow me to fill my tank without paying first."

The digital medium is the most copyable, most easily reproducible of all that are out there. It is the most difficult to control. Their marketing people should know that. IMO, LAT/WP doesn't know how to market their goods. I have always contended that left-wing PC'ers don't know how to make anything work. The LAT/WP is requesting an extremely hypocritical double standard foisted on the public. They support politicians who write laws which allow the government to steal property from the public (via legal plundering). They support a communistic agenda which tramples all over the Constitution and steals our liberties. And then they have the gall to scream 'theft of property when someone 'cuts and pastes' their articles.

You need to analyze and reason this issue before your next rant.

553 posted on 06/20/2002 4:24:46 AM PDT by CWRWinger
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To: ArneFufkin
Do you think news floats around in the air like magnetic waves or something?

Yes it does. Information is freely available.

554 posted on 06/20/2002 4:26:15 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Jim Robinson; All

GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!

555 posted on 06/20/2002 4:29:25 AM PDT by SunnyUsa
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To: ArneFufkin
Everybody is doing their part to exchange commerce and create value and prosperity EXCEPT FREE REPUBLIC. We're freeloading.

Get lost. Why don't you go to work for the government or ETV?

556 posted on 06/20/2002 4:31:47 AM PDT by CWRWinger
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To: Jim Robinson
What a relief! GREAT news!!
557 posted on 06/20/2002 4:33:07 AM PDT by Matchett-PI
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To: ArneFufkin
There are advertisements for other businesses on that page. Those ad graphics - those products - are sold by businesses who also have humans and investment and employees and dreams and hard work behind them.......

IMO, the people who generate and sell internet advertising are the biggest scam artists of the last decade (outside of Social Insecurity). Internet advertising is probably the least prudent way to spend an advertising buck there is.

558 posted on 06/20/2002 4:40:03 AM PDT by CWRWinger
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To: ArneFufkin
Hey, if you didn't want me to come and steal your chain saw, you shouldn't have left your garage unlocked when you were at church. If you didn't want to me to have sex with your wife, you shouldn't have left her alone when I was home next door.

In the land of the CSA, you invade a home, you invite a bullet.

559 posted on 06/20/2002 4:43:06 AM PDT by CWRWinger
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To: Bryan
Thanks for the heads up. Somehow I'd missed this.

And thanks for everything you have done!

560 posted on 06/20/2002 4:50:15 AM PDT by JudyB1938
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