A week ago I posted about the ongoing lawsuit between carreon, funnyjunk, and the Oatmeal. Copy and paste parts of it: In 2011 the guy in charge of the webcomic site The Oatmeal, Inman, got angry at FunnyJunk for using his comics in their business. They took his work, watermarked it as their material, and hosted it on their site, without credit. A lot of the material still is (well, maybe not *now* but until this mess it was) there. That's the way the site works, he complained on his site about it and some things got taken down. Not everything, but some stuff was done to meet the complaints. Done deal, right? Right.
...Until a week ago when FunnyJunk sent a lawyer saying that Inman better take down anything regarding FunnyJunk and pony up $20,000 for defamation, or else. So like any reasonable webcomic artist would do, he took the time to look at the claim, upload it, and post remarks. The letter is below, as well as what he's done.
So he's suing The Oatmeal directly saying they're inciting "cyber-vandalism" because he's been emailed spammed, fake twitter accounts were made, his website got the WHOIS revealed, etc. You know, the standard "internet has an enemy" stuff. He's blaming Inman and The Oatmeal for cyber vandalism as a result, saying that Inman created, and I quote, an Internet jihad. No seriously.
So to be clear, this case started off with a guy grumbling about FunnyJunk. Which turned into FunnyJunk trying to extort a man out of $20,000 for his work. Which resulted in a lawyer's mom being drawn trying to seduce a bear in order to raise money for charity and tell FJ to F off. Which created a baffled lawyer who, failing to shut down the campaign, is now suing not just the creator of the content, but also cancer charities.
These Techdirt nazi scumbags are doing to Charles what they did to the Jewish lawyers in Nazi Germany. Accusing him of greed and being responsible for the entire economic mess that our country is in. I mean, that is crazy!...
And: Like I said, they are our modern-day "Hitler youth," and Matt Inman is their Hitler—not even the person Hitler, just "Hitler's port-a-potty." [A term Inman used in an interview to describe his Twitter feed.] And they're proud of it. They think it's funny. They think they can take any racist, bigoted, regressive idea and legitimize it by putting it into a cartoon.
And: "The KKK is coming at you," Tara writes, "and instead of fighting back, you are advised to just take it. That's what Matt Inman's bunch wants us to do."
as for the plans they have? "And we're going to have to sue them all." That's right. They are going to sue the internet. All of it.
Does anybody have popcorn. Or hell, tortilla chips. I ran out last time and this show is incredible.
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This story gets more incredible every day. I mean this article STARTS with a lawyer lashing out with rap battle/poetry slams.
Segues into "What kind of connections does someone have in the world to be this arrogant towards a lawyer?" she asked. "Think about it. Inman is WELL-CONNECTED! To me, that just means one thing: mafia"
Obligatory ##Vote:Inman
Plus all the stuff already mentioned PLUS I'm not even done reading the second page.
quite frankly, the end result of this can't be anything short of disbarment. as a lawyer you aren't supposed to do even a third of the things he's done. i'm sure by now that there have been actual complaints done to start this process.
and if they haven't, well, suing the guys in charge over in the state where you practice will help.
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"Maybe it's a tentacle, molesting the planet itself. - Aschen Brodel.
