Anyone else following what is going on between The Oatmeal and FunnyJunk?
Long story short - FJ threatened to sue the oatmeal webcomic because of archived complaints about FJ's policy of reposting copyrighted material and proffitting off of it without artist permission or attributes.
The Oatmeal responded to the lawsuit by starting an indiegogo campaign to raise money so that he could take a picture of said money with a comic of the lawyer's mom seducing a bear, and then donate the money to the National Wildlife Foundation and the American Cancer Society.
In a few days he has raised over 140K.
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The lawyer pushing the suit has recently stepped into full blown, honest to God, evil territory: The National Wildlife Federation and the mother@#$%ing American Cancer Society are now being sued as well.
There have been a lot of awesome lawyer/journalists watching this like a hawk, but this really needs some mainstream media attention already.
There's a pretty thorough rundown of the situation in multiple parts on a legal blog, Popehat. You can actually see when and where things get more surreal.
WHAT.
Can I get a source on that Mikaze? I have to see this for myself. (At work and can't go Googling willy-nilly.)
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WHAT.
Can I get a source on that Mikaze? I have to see this for myself. (At work and can't go Googling willy-nilly.)
Quick drive-by post but this is the point where the derp reached critical mass. It has links to the earlier coverage as this whole thing has developed.
Wooooooooooooow.
