Request for LEGAL ADVICE / AID in defense of a LART

[karlthepagan.livejournal.com]

Hail Eris!

The lart began when I saw several friends complain about wiccans_unite. The maintainer of the new comm had copied the user info, icons, and interests straight out of wiccan, where the wiccans_unite maintainer had a falling out over various new Wiccan topics which are familiar to several of us.

Thus wiccans_untie was born. Days later blackthornglade was libeled, and indicated to be the creator (since they had joined, while I had not). I quickly corrected the mistake, but found an abuse complaint of copyright infringement against me. Fortunately the claim was fraudulent, as the content in wiccans_untie's info originally appeared in wiccan and silvertree has (if I interpret "Np." correctly) granted her permission for the use of that text in wiccans_untie (she was in fact notified as soon as I created the lart.)

Unfortunately the Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires that I submit to a legally stringent commitment. The abuse team has advised me to seek legal representation, so here I am!

FYI I am in the 9th Federal Legislative District(?) Eastern Washington U.S. Court District (easy, 30 minute drive for me).

Comments

[stollman.livejournal.com]

By the way, it's totally ok to send your counter-notification letter via email, but I would send a paper copy as well and inform them that you are doing so.