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12/18/2003 Archived Entry: "Happy to Announce..."
Happy to Announce...
That the Big Bad Wolf has left the door, the Wicked Witch is dead, and the Fat Lady has sung. The Lawsuit has been dismissed.
The Talk Radio Network today dropped a suit aimed at shutting down Web sites that urge people to boycott companies that advertise on a nationally syndicated right-wing radio show. The suit was filed against four people who operate three Web sites critical of right-wing radio host Michael Savage. Public Citizen, which has a history of defending speech on the Internet, is representing two of those Web site operators, Thomas and Gunilla Leavitt of Santa Cruz, Calif., who created www.savagestupidity.com.[...]
The Talk Radio Network, based in Grants Pass, Ore., filed suit on May 12 in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, alleging that the defendants are running commercial Web sites that make false and malicious statements about Savage and attempt to interfere with Talk Radio Network's relationships with advertisers, specifically Culligan, an Illinois-based company. The suit asked the court to shut down the Web sites and force the operators pay several hundred thousand dollars in damages.
In a brief filed in June, Public Citizen argued that the network's suit was flawed in many ways. First, it was filed in the wrong court, because the Leavitts live in California. Second, the site expressed the Leavitts' opinion about Savage, and the statements they made about him are to their knowledge true, so the criteria for libel of a public figure were not met. Finally, the network argued that the posting of clips of Savage's show violated its copyright, but the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear that such a "fair use" of material is protected under the First Amendment.
Big thanks to everyone who showed their support for TBTM. We officially now stand in the clear. Stay tuned for the book and movie!
Replies: 6 people speak up
congrats!!!!!
thankfully savage is back where he belongs, off of television and back on shitty AM stations. the station he is on here in chicago has such a week signal that you cant pick going around a corner (i only know because i stumbled across his show looking for a news channel in my car)
Posted by justin @ 12/18/2003 07:56 PM NY
It's all about that Fair Use and it's all about our blessed judicial branch, which is the only thing keeping us from an all-out Orwellian executive branch state.
Peace.
Posted by Dr. Damfa @ 12/18/2003 09:32 PM NY
so excellently kewl.
party!!!
Posted by Melic @ 12/18/2003 09:33 PM NY
Looks like a judicial Hat Trick for the Left this week: Pedilla, Guantanamo, and now this. Hear that horrible screaming? It's the Right howling in pain, like a wounded, mangy, unloved animal.
I eat a healthy diet: lots of veggies, rice, fish, no red meat. I take my vitamins, drink wheatgrass, noni juice, OPC, and red wine. Why? So that I can live long enough to piss on their graves. But before I do that, I'll drink lots of French and German beer. Ahhh...
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 12/19/2003 12:53 AM NY
Must agree that living well is
the best revenge!!Do not forget
the wines of the french and german,
oh and french fries!! It is good to see some sanity prevail in this time. Lets be correct!, anything but Stalinist Right!:)LOL
Posted by lush @ 12/19/2003 12:54 PM NY
Congrats, stranger! Like Metro said, the judicial Hat Trick for the left this week. (Let's just hope the SCOTUS doesn't screw the first two).
Posted by Jason @ 12/19/2003 04:50 PM NY
