A bloggers legal defense fund?

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> From: "Jon Ippolito" <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue Dec 7, 2004 12:14:33 America/New_York
> To: liza sabater <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: A bloggers legal defense fund?
>
> Liza,
>
> Thanks for bringing attention to this issue. The longer you've been in
> the business of reporting on or re-creating culture, the more likely
> you've felt the pinch of corporate copyright.
>
> Wendy Seltzer and her EFF colleagues would certainly have valuable
> advice for a legal defense fund, but if it's dollars against dollars
> the Sony's of the world are always going to beat the Napiers or the
> Kottkes. Maybe bloggers should take a cue from Internet artists and
> wage on a more level battlefield–such as publicity.
>
> Re Jeff Jarvis's call for
>
> "3. Curriculum on legal rights and responsibilities, including libel
> and copyright. Also a wiki so no one has to do it all."
>
> Joline Blais, Mark Tribe, and I have been planning a comparable online
> resource, drawing from the Still Water-Eyebeam forum you mentioned and
> from his Columbia course on open source culture. More on that later,
> we hope :)
>
> jon
>
> liza sabater <[email protected]> on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 at
> 1:50 AM -0500 wrote:
>> 7 Years after The Distorted Barbie, now there is talk of a legal
>> defense fund. The question is, should it be only for bloggers?
>> http://www.culturekitchen.com/archives/002702.html
>