Uri Geller Accused of Bending Copyright Law 273
JagsLive writes in with a Fox News report about Uri Geller's apparently playing fast and loose with copyright law in order to silence his detractors. "'All it takes is a single e-mail to completely censor someone on the Internet,' said Jason Schultz, a lawyer for the online civil rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is suing Geller over an unflattering clip posted on YouTube for which he claimed a copyright ownership."
Dupe (Score:4, Informative)
Nothing's wrong with entertaining people. But suing people over it is just being a fucktard. I read both articles, nothing's changed, he's still a fucktard. Hey, I calls 'em like I sees 'em.
Re:Obviously... (Score:3, Informative)
I thought he (and ESP) pretty much dwindled in popularity to Art Bell's Show [coasttocoastam.com]* and maybe a few paranormal conventions here and there.
* before anyone screams, yes I know Mr. Bell has recently retired (again) and no I'm not bagging on it - AAMOF I fall asleep to it once in awhile... call it a guilty pleasure.
Re:Obviously... (Score:2, Informative)
Not about money (Score:2, Informative)
Re:What's good for the goose... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Obviously... (Score:2, Informative)
James Randi! (Score:4, Informative)
James Randi exposes Uri Geller and Peter Popoff (Faith Healer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9w7jHYriFo&mode=r
James Randi exposes James Hydrick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlfMsZwr8rc&mode=r
There are many, many more debunkings (sp?) by this fine man. Just search YouTube for 'James Randi'.
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Legal brief mentions slashdot user Gregerson (Score:3, Informative)
The motion to dismiss Geller's bad suit cites "Gregerson v. Vilana", a defamation/copyright lawsuit I'm a party to (I'm the Plaintiff, Gregerson). www.eff.org/legal/cases/sapient_v_geller/sapient_m otiontodismiss.pdf [eff.org].
It's cited as a minor point in the memorandum on page 22, about fair use being an affirmative defense versus a basis for dismissal.
My case is described on my page:
Gregerson v. Vilana [cgstock.com]
Re:James Randi! (Score:1, Informative)
http://www.sheldrake.org/controversies/randi.html [sheldrake.org]
http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/exam/Presc
Thanks for wasting my time with that shit. You could have mentioned that despite the names of those sites, they are in fact written by a bunch of whackjobs with no evidence to offer beyond, "Boohoo! He's sooooo mean to our ESP believing, homeopathy shovelling friends. PS. Buy these books."
In order to show my appreciation, I modded both your posts "troll". If you think this is unfair, just pray you never meet me in real life.
Regards,
Slashcrap (869349)