Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:12 PM 09-04-98 -0700, you wrote: >Yes, Playboy claimed in their suit that I was also burning CD-R >disks full of their images and that I was copying some Pamela >Anderson CDROM and selling it. They made many unfounded >accusations of this type which I subsequently opposed in court. >All these CDROM allegations and scanning magazine allegations >are not true and did not affect me in court. In fact, Playboy >did not even bring them up in court. > If so, then the whole lawsuit seems to be built on foundations of sand. Even if you were guitly of distributing usenet images which belonged to Playboy, the fact remains that the images were already in existence on countless USENET servers around the world. Essentially every ISP has a server with a hard disk that contains, and any moment, thousands of copyrighted images. They are distributers of that stuff, no more or less than you. Why doesn't Playboy go after them? (Maybe they'd lose??) Dan C.