GoDaddy Sued For $100 Million Because A Website Put Up Copyrighted Photos Of Michael Jackson?
from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept
Honestly, if I wanted to make up this sort of stuff, I couldn't. Apparently domain registrar GoDaddy has been sued for $100 million by a guy who claims to hold the copyright on some photos of Michael Jackson, which appeared on a website with the domain MichaelJacksonCasino.com. Now, I could see a right of publicity argument from the Michael Jackson estate, and maybe there's even a copyright lawsuit for the copyright holder... but they would be against whoever created the website, not GoDaddy. In this lawsuit, I would imagine GoDaddy's lawyers will quickly point out the pertinent DMCA safe harbors and that will be that.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: copyright, dmca, michael jackson, safe harbors
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Losing a suit
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Terms of Service change
"We recently made changes to the Universal Terms of Service Agreement affecting your Go Daddy products and services. These changes include, but are not limited to, the following:
Section 5 (Your Use of Go Daddy Content and User Content) and Section 6 (Go Daddy's Use of User Content)
We added language to clarify that the applicable provisions are not intended to and do not have the effect of transferring any ownership or licensed rights (including intellectual property rights) you may have in content posted to your hosted websites. ...."
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The only way to tackle and stop all this crap is to collectivly tell the lawyers and the court stick it up your ass. \Yes i am talking global disabediance.
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[Name generic non responsible party here] Sued For [Put huge sum of money here] Because A Website Put Up Copyrighted [put generic IP here] Of [Put generic big corporation here] on the internet.
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This is nonsense
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This is nonsense
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Re: Stupid Legal System
Sadly, a judge today has less authority than a [Slaveholder] Probation/Parole officer (see CA Penal 181). Also a psychiatrist has more power than a Judge see the Mental Competency of the LA Clippers owner for example. In two words "Mentally Incompetent" you lose the right to own property and even your wife loses here 50% share of commutative property per CA law.
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The laws are terrible ie change business name for immunity.
The "law is not enforceable" is a common phrase used which proves how law enforcement needs improvement. 1st I suggest law school for law officers and any public school student. Then perhaps the laws will be enforced and/or abided by.
But more important is freedom of speech in court and public recording of court to ensure integrity and undermine corruption. What is the point of court if you are denied the first amendment right to speak by a Judge that swore an oath to uphold the constitution. see article at shop-s.top and vibrochat.com's website for sale page.
Also my gofundme and fundanything.com sites (now spoof website) are concealed. I wanted to sue for these rights. tiny.cc/rights1 and tiny.cc/rights.
Lastly, I have paid godaddy.com for Domain Buy and Backorder and I have watched my website change ownership 3 times. From sitehero.com to uniregistry.com to namesilo.com I need to sue them as well.
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