From DNA Info:
They got the last laugh.
A parody website that took jabs at members of Queens Community Board 1 is back up online after pulling its content last week, following threats from the city over use of the official seal.
The new version of CB1Queens.org contains many of the same biting remarks about the local board, but shows other changes, including a disclaimer on its homepage that it's a "parody" and "not part of Queens Community Board 1."
The city's Law Department had notified the site that it was in possible violation of copyright laws for using the city seal on the page, and for copying other elements from the actual CB1 website.
"The City of New York is the exclusive owner of all rights in the City seal and the City possesses common law trademark rights in the seal," a Law Department staffer wrote in an e-mail to the site's anonymous creator.
"You have created a website that looks substantially similar to the official Community Board 1 Queens website. The layout and design of the official CB1 Queens website, as well as its contents, are protected by federal copyright law," the e-mail reads.
My favorite page is about the members who donated to Vallone campaigns over the years.
10 comments:
SOMEONE...PRETTY PLEASE...
set up a similar site to lampoon the iNFAMOUSLY SHADY CB#7!
Irwin Kantor, a past CB#7 board member, used to vote yes, to approve his own projects that came before the board for a vote.
This kind of horse shit has been going on for years.
CB#7 is long overdue for a federal investigation into its crooked activities.
Maybe the FBI can uncover Chuck Apelian's possible connection to a hotel project that's in the works off of Sanford Ave. on Union Street.
GREAT JOB!
Keep on exposing those shifty Vallones!
That political mafia dynasty needs to be toppled.
Happy reading Chuck.
We already know that "follow the buck" Chuck Apelian has no choice but to follow Queens crap each morning.
Dontchaluvit?
The Vallones are shitting in their shoes!
you are allowed to use things like names and logos in parody. The music and film industry has dealt with that for a long, long time.
" These fair use cases distinguish between parodies (using a work in order to poke fun at or comment on the work itself) and satires (using a work to poke fun at or comment on something else). Courts have been more willing to grant fair use protections to parodies than to satires, but the ultimate outcome in either circumstance will turn on the application of the four fair use factors." - Wiki
Yes. But it is worth getting sued over, even if you're right?
Yes. But it is worth getting sued over, even if you're right?
Hell yes, but they will not. All it would do is draw more attention to themselves.
Any when you win you can countersue, and even better, show all those spineless ones out there that get weak kneed everytime a pol walks into the room that its ok to criticize them.
really.
In cases like this the New York Civil Liberties Union will be glad to defend you pro bono.
I've been there, used them, and won!
Defending free speech is what they're really good at!
Remember, in the evolution of life on this planet Earth, the lump like spineless creatures eventually developed appendages and spines.
if you wish to remain a jellyfish without a backbone then learn to suffer your lot in solitude and quiet.
DO NOT BE AFRAID OF YOUR POLITICIANS, BECAUSE
YOU HIRED THEM. YOU ARE THEIR BOSSES!
IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE JOB THEY'RE DOING,
THEN KICK THEM IN THE BALLS AT THE POLLS!
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