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AngelsNAirwav3s
08/05/20 10:39:56 PM
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https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/youtuber-wins-attorneys-fees-in-clinton-party-copyright-case

YouTube personality Carl Benjaminknown on the platform as Sargon of Akkadwon attorneys fees in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday after successfully defending a copyright suit over his mocking of a video taken at Hillary Clintons election night party.

Comedian Akilah Hughes lawsuit was objectively unreasonable and meant to inflict financial harm on Benjamin and to raise her own profile in the process, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York said.

Hughes attended the Clinton campaigns election night party in Manhattan in 2016 and posted a 10-minute video of party footage and commentary to YouTube called We Thought She Would Win.

Benjamin posted a video called SJW Levels of Awareness that used two minutes of clips from Hughess video. SJW is an acronym for social justice warrior, which the court has said is routinely used by Benjamin in a demeaning context to belittle proponents of perceived liberal social policies and stances.

Hughes sued Benjamin for copyright infringement, and the court found in February that Benjamins video made fair use of Hughes video as transformative criticism and commentary.

The court awarded Benjamin over $38,000 in attorneys fees Wednesday, finding Hughes claims were objectively unreasonable, and that this was clear from the face of the complaint and the videos at the heart of the dispute.

It was unmistakable that the edited video was designed to highlight and critique Hughess alleged lack of self-awareness, not to pass off her work as Benjamins, the court said.
Hughes also brought the suit for an improper purpose, the court said. According to the court, Hughes admitted on Twitter and her website that she intended to bankrupt Benjamin and use copyright laws to silence her political opponents and critics. Hughes social media posts about the case also suggested that she intended to sensationalize the litigation to elevate her own public profile and achieve a secondary financial gain, the court said.

The fact that Benjamins GoFundMe campaign for his legal fees raised three times as much as he ended up spending was found to be irrelevant.

Put simply, a litigants good luck in having the financial wherewithal to defend against a frivolous suitwhether because of insurance, a GoFundMe campaign, a rich uncle, or a pro bono lawyerdoes not automatically immunize the losing party from the consequences of her actions, the court said.

And now she is having a meltdown on twitter, probably going to appeal and lose even more money lol

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brotrrwinner
08/05/20 10:41:10 PM
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Good

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Poop2
08/05/20 10:42:38 PM
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we got them this time!
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pfh1001
08/05/20 10:43:02 PM
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/youtuber-wins-attorneys-fees-in-clinton-party-copyright-case

According to the court, Hughes admitted on Twitter and her website that she intended to bankrupt Benjamin and use copyright laws to silence her political opponents and critics.


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Shotgunnova
08/05/20 10:45:01 PM
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Future Sargon video: "She Thought She Would Win"

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Dathrowed1
08/05/20 10:46:49 PM
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She still mad he was gifted $120k and still has to be $38k LMAO

PS please don't put kisses in an email to me. As you said, we can't be amicable, and this is a form of sexual harrassment

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ModLogic
08/05/20 10:47:26 PM
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AngelsNAirwav3s
08/05/20 10:59:15 PM
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Pretty much everyone told her she had no chance to win this case and she refused to settle...

You really shoot yourself in the foot when you file a copyright claim and say right away he made the video to make fun of me, when Criticism is a main part of fair use that has a ton of legal precedent lol

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RebelElite791
08/05/20 11:00:53 PM
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Sargon is an alt-right fucknut.

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refmon
08/05/20 11:04:10 PM
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Shotgunnova posted...
Future Sargon video: "She Thought She Would Win"
lmao

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IShall_Run_Amok
08/05/20 11:04:35 PM
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That's unfortunate, he should have been bankrupted. Fuck him.

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Prestoff
08/05/20 11:05:07 PM
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pfh1001 posted...
Fuck her, good that she lost.

Yeah seriously, she did this to herself.

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Grischnak
08/05/20 11:05:40 PM
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Politics aside, what she did was unquestionably both fucked up and stupid. She was trying to ruin him over something petty and she was dumb enough to publicly admit it. She got what she deserved.
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KamenRiderBlade
08/05/20 11:07:26 PM
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RebelElite791 posted...
Sargon is an alt-right fucknut.
That is a completely separate and unrelated issue to the case.

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KamenRiderBlade
08/05/20 11:08:00 PM
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IShall_Run_Amok posted...
That's unfortunate, he should have been bankrupted. Fuck him.
So the law only applies to people you like, is that how it is?

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Stewman_Magoo
08/05/20 11:09:33 PM
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I'm not on her side, but nothing positive should be allowed to happen to soygon

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KamenRiderBlade
08/05/20 11:11:38 PM
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Stewman_Magoo posted...
I'm not on her side, but nothing positive should be allowed to happen to soygon
Why? You don't like him? The law should treat only one side positively and be rigged against the other?

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Prestoff
08/05/20 11:13:27 PM
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Stewman_Magoo posted...
I'm not on her side, but nothing positive should be allowed to happen to soygon

Sargon maybe a piece of shit (I'm pretty liberal myself), but it was blatantly obvious he was going to win this lawsuit because Sargon actually has experience with dealing with this kind of stuff before. Plus that Akilah girl openly admitted that she was suing him to bankrupt and silence him. This is literal karma biting her in the ass.

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Rhylos
08/05/20 11:13:41 PM
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lol at everyone saying "I don't like him so I hate that something positive happened."

She clearly was abusing the system and trying to exploit someone else to bankruptcy. The fact that it was sargon is almost irrelevant.
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creativerealms
08/05/20 11:17:39 PM
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Yeah I hate Sargon too but he was on the right side of the law in this case. I

I respect the free speech even of speech I disagree with.

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DeadBankerDream
08/05/20 11:18:16 PM
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Sargon's literal cancer in the shape of a fat human, but I have a hard time seeing how this could have ended any other way.

She's clearly nuts too. She posted an email exchange on her twitter between him and her after she DMCA'd his video to start with, which is surprisingly civil, and yet she calls it the start of "endless harassment", which she had to sue him to stop.

Like... you cant sue someone for DMCA abuse because he (or his followers if so) harassed you.
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Slayer_22
08/05/20 11:21:43 PM
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My local applebees waiter won a case? Nice!

In all seriousness, as much of an irrelevant asshat as Sargon is, this is a win for everyone. This chick basically wanted to do this just to silence his critique of her. Like...what the fuck, man?
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Tsukasa1891
08/05/20 11:34:11 PM
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brotrrwinner posted...
Good
Great.
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Dathrowed1
08/05/20 11:42:39 PM
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Shotgunnova posted...
Future Sargon video: "She Thought She Would Win"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO9gDpC6k0I

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Stewman_Magoo
08/05/20 11:46:57 PM
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Lol

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cjsdowg
08/05/20 11:50:58 PM
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A win for racist..what's new America.

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ohiostate124
08/05/20 11:52:20 PM
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Curious to see if Patreon survives if his and Lauren Southerns fans join Owen Benjamins.
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DeadBankerDream
08/05/20 11:53:36 PM
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ohiostate124 posted...
Curious to see if Patreon survives if his and Lauren Southerns fans join Owen Benjamins.

lmao
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Tenlaar
08/05/20 11:56:40 PM
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cjsdowg posted...
A win for racist..what's new America.
Do you think that a person being racist should make them lose legal protections from unreasonable lawsuits? Do you think that the court should have automatically ruled against him because he is racist?
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Zeeak4444
08/05/20 11:57:04 PM
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This would fall under social justice would it n a
Slayer_22 posted...
My local applebees waiter won a case? Nice!

In all seriousness, as much of an irrelevant asshat as Sargon is, this is a win for everyone. This chick basically wanted to do this just to silence his critique of her. Like...what the fuck, man?

I mean, sure its a win in some ways. Its not like that shit still doesnt happen though.

The only real thing here is that she didnt have the money to draw him out and drain him. Had she there could have been a very different result.

If we were actually being real about things.

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Megaman50100
08/05/20 11:57:36 PM
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cjsdowg
08/06/20 12:00:55 AM
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Tenlaar posted...
Do you think that a person being racist should make them lose legal protections from unreasonable lawsuits? Do you think that the court should have automatically ruled against him because he is racist?

They get all the protect. Like this dude he lies about people all the damn time.
Example
https://archive.vn/NTCo9

And nothing ever happens to him skates by. But oh yes be sure he is protected.

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DeadBankerDream
08/06/20 12:05:08 AM
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cjsdowg posted...


They get all the protect. Like this dude he lies about people all the damn time.
Example
https://archive.vn/NTCo9

And nothing ever happens to him skates by. But oh yes be sure he is protected.

Dude said Heather Heyer , the person who was killed in an atl driving in crowd of people , had heart attack. But yes he must be protected at all cost.


He has legal protections that should be upheld like any other, yes. You're complaining that twitter wont ban him for being a lying piece of shit. Those are not the same thing.
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Shotgunnova
08/06/20 12:06:03 AM
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Dathrowed1 posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO9gDpC6k0I
When I'm good, I'm good.

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Delirious_Beard
08/06/20 12:09:49 AM
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remember when sargon mentioned trying to get Trump to mention gamergate on twitter in complete seriousness

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Tenlaar
08/06/20 12:17:21 AM
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cjsdowg posted...
They get all the protect. Like this dude he lies about people all the damn time.
Example
https://archive.vn/NTCo9

And nothing ever happens to him skates by. But oh yes be sure he is protected.

Dude said Heather Heyer , the person who was killed in an atl driving in crowd of people , had heart attack. But yes he must be protected at all cost.
Do you want to try again except this time actually answer the questions that I asked you instead of replying in a way that avoids acknowledging the belief that you were seeming to express in your first post, like you did here?
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Zero_Destroyer
08/06/20 12:22:12 AM
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Sargon essentially admitted to being a white nationalist and has said/supported a cavalcade of explicitly racist things but even still, I'd argue that this person winning a court case against him on this would set a dangerous precedent. The more obvious solution to Sargon's platform is to just nuke his YT/Twitter.

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LethalAffinity
08/06/20 12:22:39 AM
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IShall_Run_Amok posted...
That's unfortunate, he should have been bankrupted. Fuck him.

fuck off

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cjsdowg
08/06/20 12:54:43 AM
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Tenlaar posted...
Do you want to try again except this time actually answer the questions that I asked you instead of replying in a way that avoids acknowledging the belief that you were seeming to express in your first post, like you did here?
I said what I said.

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Smackems
08/06/20 12:55:47 AM
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Good. Sargon is pretty cool most of the time

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cjsdowg
08/06/20 1:00:32 AM
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Smackems posted...
Good. Sargon is pretty cool most of the time
Yeah like the time he said the DNC were having people killed... great guy.

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dave_is_slick
08/06/20 1:00:44 AM
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RebelElite791 posted...
Sargon is an alt-right fucknut.
That doesn't mean that he shouldn't have rightfully won this case. What does have to do with anything?

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Tenlaar
08/06/20 1:03:05 AM
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cjsdowg posted...
I said what I said.
I'll take that to mean you're going to just pretend that you're not in here acting like being racist means that somebody should lose legal protections against malicious lawsuits because you know how stupid you would look if you actually tried to back that position up.
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Smackems
08/06/20 1:03:47 AM
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cjsdowg posted...
Yeah like the time he said the DNC were having people killed... great guy.
I said most of the time

And really I haven't listened to him much since like 2018 so I dunno much about what he's up to currently. And never watched his live streams or debates

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IShall_Run_Amok
08/06/20 1:04:59 AM
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LethalAffinity posted...
fuck off
Maybe Sargon will use his newfound wealth to better himself. Although, as far as I can remember, not being a huge dingleberry is free.

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cjsdowg
08/06/20 1:05:25 AM
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Tenlaar posted...
I'll take that to mean you're going to just pretend that you're not in here acting like being racist means that somebody should lose legal protections against malicious lawsuits because you know how stupid you would look if you actually tried to back that position up.

Take however you want to take it. Sargon literally lies about people who were murdered claims people were killed. That is not protected speech seemingly that is libel.

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TomNook20
08/06/20 1:06:33 AM
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_Squirtle_
08/06/20 1:07:31 AM
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cjsdowg posted...


Take however you want to take it. Sargon literally lies about people who were murdered claims people were killed. That is not protected speech seemingly that is libel.

"Wahhh guys who say things that make me mad should be in prison!"



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ZeroX91
08/06/20 1:08:50 AM
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Errythings coming up sargon....maybe he will get that GG2 electricboogalo. Lol

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