In the immortal words of John Macenroe...

[green_amber]

You cannot be se-rious....

Someone do a LOL cat please? I CAN HAS LIVER WITH A NICE CHARDONNAY NAO PLIS?

It'd be good if it had the IT Crowd in it too :)

Wow it's  a great time to be a privacy lawyer. Nazi orgies (allegedly). German cannibals. Any guesses on what next?

EDIT: Ok, this next.

Well that took a full ten minutes..

Also this, about which I can say little other than that it's about time they started selling close-target limited tactical nuclear strikes on eBay.

I think I'll go back to bed! :)

Comments

[andrewducker]

I'm glad they can't fictionalise living people for entertainment purposes. The IT crowd was far enough away for safety, I'd have thought :->

And Scrabulous were always going to be sued into the ground. I wonder if FB will claim common carrier status...

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

But he says he doesn't want his life made into a horror movie. His life WAS A HORROR MOVIE!

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

ps FB not geting sued. You don't sue your customers! they want to license THEIR version to FB :)

[andrewducker]

They're suing in New York, against an Indian company. Why do that unless you want Facebook to take note?

And indeed:
"On Thursday, Hasbro presented the request to Facebook in the form of a demand backed by US law regarding copyright infringement on the Internet."

"Facebook has tried to use its status as neutral platform provider to help the parties come to an amicable agreement," the California-based website said in response to an AFP inquiry.

"We're disappointed that Hasbro has sought to draw us into their dispute; nevertheless, we have forwarded their concerns to Scrabulous and requested their appropriate response."

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hWFWNegDkVtGi_1EdEPJcapuO8CQ

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

But see bit at bottom

"Mattel is planning its own Facebook Scrabble game." That eans they need to make a contact WITH FB.

Hasbro will be doing same for EU (or seling rts to someone else to do same)#

So you sue compettors but you bargain with the platform - unless it all goes west in whcih case you do so but mainly in hope of getting what you want that way via a settlement(cf Viacom v YT)

that's why I never get any case law -- I wish they WOULD sue FB!

[andrewducker]

They aren't planning it - it's already on FB. The problem is that it has 2000 users, versus scrabulous' 600,000.

The lawsuit is clearly a bargaining tool with FB - the question is whether FB can say "Common Carrier - you'll have to take us to court to get us to take it off." or just fold.

[andrewducker]

Oppressor!

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I think you're overly identifying with how nice he was on the IT Crwod!

[andrewducker]

I'm just saying that no matter how horrific someone's life was they shouldn't be the subject of fictional entertainment until they're dead.

[clarehooper.livejournal.com]

Great icon!