I might be the only person here who didn't know this...

[JeffR]

But I thought I'd put it up in case anyone else hasn't seen it.

http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/freerep/19991029rob.htm

[Wilms]

1. If I say please...

would you tell me a little about what's on your mind?

[Village Idiot]

3. A little background on RimJob.

[mandyky]

2. Please post a snippet of what this is about

A link and a sentence saying one doesn't know something doesn't help much.

[Emit]

4. Here's the gist of it

~snip~

Nature of the Case. The Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post sued the Free Republic website for copyright infringement for publishing copies of news stories from their websites without permission. The Free Republic raised the affirmative defense of fair. The Free Republic lost in the District Court, and has appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

~snip~

[American liberal]

6. That's AWESOME!!!

And Fair Use is why we are only allowed to snip no more than four paragraphs from copyrighted materials and post them here on DU! Keep in mind, however, that public speeches by public figures are in public domain and are not copyright protected. Also, most info. off of govt. web sites are also public domain.

I'm glad to hear they went after FR--and WON! You just made my day!

Peace,
AL

[JeffR]

7. Thanks Emit

That's a better explanation than mine.
:patriot:

[American liberal]

8. they'll lose in the 9th too, I'll wager

and, JeffR, thanks for the post. I did NOT know this! Cheers!

[JeffR]

5. Sorry

The link is to a transcript of testimony given by Jim Robinson, founder of Free Republic. The testimony was for a copyright infringement suit brought by the LA Times against FR.

There's a lot of biographical detail in it, as well as an overview of how FR came into being.