Comments on: Comedy Copyright Battle Raises Seriously Funny Issues

By: Militant Libertarian » Comedy Copyright Battle Raises Seriously Funny Issues

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:16:47 +0000

[...] Posted: June 19th, 2012 by Gadget42 from TorrentFreak [...]

By: DocGerbil100

DocGerbil100 — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:33:00 +0000

For anyone who’s not been following, this bizarre case is still moving forward and officially now qualifies as Genuinely Funny Yet Horrifying At The Same Time Comedy Gold: Funnyjunk’s lawyer Charles Carreon (not Funnyjunk, per se, just the lawyer (unless – as has been suggested – they are secretly one and the same)) has now actually filed his lawsuit against The Oatmeal, Indiegogo, the National Wildlife Federation, the American Cancer Society and 100 John Does on the internet who said/did mean things about him, on various deeply spurious grounds.

Carreon is clearly a man who believes he can dig his way to the moon.

See http://www.popehat.com/2012/06/17/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-iv-charles-carreon-sues-everybody/ for more details.

By: calcul prêt hypothécaire

calcul prêt hypothécaire — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:20:00 +0000

The Oatmeal’s content, but hours later they had all been removed. He’s not amused and says he will not pay.

By: Kolos

Kolos — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:25:00 +0000

The dude of the oatmeal is pissed because he was asked to pay 20000 because he posted some crap in his blog about bj. Also he gave up on bj last year because it was a waste of time

By: Qsdklfj

Qsdklfj — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 21:52:00 +0000

Bitching about people sharing your images: wrong.

Bitching about people sharing your images and making money of it: justified.

I support privacy, but not when there’s people making money off it. One should share so that others may enjoy it, sharing while making profit is wrong.

By: darXness

darXness — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:15:00 +0000

the donation is already 100k ++ …WTF???

By: farenheit

farenheit — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:26:00 +0000

Reasons people support The Oatmeal and not the RIAA:
1) He’s an individual we can identify with, not a faceless corporation;
2) He doesn’t sue his own customers;
3) His comics are funny;
4) He’s an artist, not an artist’s lawyer or an artist’s accountant;
5) He’s ‘sticking it to the man’ (FunnyJunk’s lawyer) in the same way that TPB ‘stuck it to the man’ (RIAA’s lawyers). The Oatmeal and TBP are the same in this respect.
6) He has likeability, and that counts for a LOT
7) He has internet credibility (in the same way that TBP do) and that counts for a lot too
8) He played the ‘charity’ card. If RIAA promised to donate all proceedings from copyright claims to charity, they would probably have a LOT more public support
9) It wasn’t just any charity, it was a cancer charity. Pretty much everyone knows someone who has been affected by cancer (or has been affected themselves). NOT supporting his cause would therefore be callous and seriously uncool
10) Did I mention his comics are really damn funny?

By: Junkie92

Junkie92 — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:18:00 +0000

Can You Believe A Rickshaw Can Do That !! Funniest Rickshaws Ever !!

http://www.funnyblips.com/2012/06/can-you-believe-rickshaw-can-do-than.html

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:38:00 +0000

… Wait, what?

You support FJ? How does that compute when they want money for nothing?

By: stupid stupid stupid

stupid stupid stupid — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:36:00 +0000

Both of them are wrong. Inman is being an asshole for thinking that he can control the entire internet to respect the [bullshit] copyright on his comics. I say “entire internet” because if he’s mad that FJ is profitting from ad revenue of his comics, then he should also be mad at FB, Twitter, Reddit, etc, ad infinitum.

But that isn’t nearly as bad as FJ actually threatening to sue Inman for displaying his opinion on his own website, considering it “defamation.” That is arguably WORSE than the RIAA threatening suing music sharers unless they pay up, because the RIAA is suing over the actual downloaded song, whereas FJ would sue Inman because he gets a lot of traffic to his blog. Utter trash.