This blogger, whose items are often stolen and posted on a certain message board with a plethora of illiterate posters without proper links and acknowledgement, has recently been told that she has a case against the message board regarding lost revenue, but that the primary case should be against a singular poster who has made a practice out of reposting intellectual property while blatantly refusing to acknowledge the source and repeatedly libeling the blogger causing a decrease in revenue. The blogger wonders if she has been in a courtroom with this person before. Not the plaintiff. But warrants will show that eventually.
So the answer is that yes you can be sued for comments on a message board. As libel is a published false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation and the number of times that it occurs multiples their liability. And there are allegedly over 2,000 screen shots of said person libeling the blogger and 432 instances of direct comments about disparaging the brand and at least 1877 of the person disparaging the person. I’d like to donate to that legal action. Theft of intellectual property is a huge thing. It’s like one of the few times that being stupid doesn’t fall into the ignorance is bliss thing. Someone has many grey days ahead.
This post suggests the Lisa Hochstein post where you label haters as fans. Almost enough said, but if you post something back that shit up with a link, message board poster.
I highly doubt Lisa gives a eff about it and certainly not enough to resurrect a sleeping dog.
I don’t understand any of this. I guess I was late to the game.
No clue who it is, but good luck TT!! Hope you nail their ass.
That is interesting and confusing at the same time…I actually don’t know the peramiters of a bloggers site.
I always presumed that each blogger creates their own guidlines and the people that post on specific sites..flollow each sites “rules”.
wow..this sounds like a specific situation..I am sorry, I need to ask..is both the blogger and the people who post as well..
Samael: Bloggers can create rules or a code of conduct for those commenting on their blogs. (Some don’t like cussing, some encourage renaming humans in unclever ways, etc.)
Blogging, like any other form of speech protected by the 1st ammendment, does not protect you against libel or defamation. At the same time, a blogger does have intellectual property rights and TT’s words/blogs are automatically copyrighted and protected as soon as she publishes them.
Hope that helps!
wow..that is awesome! thanks O.G. of the Shay
Samael: you’re welcome! And welcome to TTs!
Lipstick Alley.
Shall I tell my story?
Please do.
Lipstick alley?
Oh boy. Best of luck TT.
Agree with your comment. Reading between the lines.
Not knowing the detailed history of this, but only what I can infer, I have to say that any kind of blatant copying/stealing/cheating/plagiarism of another’s material sickens me. If said blogger is within the right to sue, and it would be worth it financially, then I say go for it. Plagiarism is wrong! No two ways about it.
This is deeply interesting to me. It’s time to research and study these kinds of situations. Maybe you’ll write more about the specifics of this one at some point, if and when you decide. I’ve recently been very impressed by something going on in Australia, where a very strong, public statement has been made about a distinction between freedom of speech, and behavior. It struck such a chord in me that I’ve been mulling it over like a zen koan. Thanks, as always, Tamara.
Bouji: is your screen name a play on the word “bourgie” or “bourgeoisie”?
How ironic that a blogger who makes a living speculating about the lives of others would turn around and sue a commenter who is essentially doing the same. Is there no honor among thieves? lol PS I know this post will never make it to your site.
Queen B—–
You are wrong about your post not appearing.
I’m betting you are wrong quite often about many things.
Maisey and Peachteach: I think we can safely guess what the “B” in QueenB’s name stands for.
P.S. Hi!! Haven’t chatted with either of you in a while.
P.P.S. Where has Hot Toddy and all of our lawyers been? (I say it in my head as Law-Yerz instead of Loy-Yers ala Teen Mom 2’s Leah Calvert-Simms-Messenger-Calvert)
Well, I guess it’s time to see yours, Queen.Tamara lays hers out in print…everyday.
I am reading it so no only are you a rude bitch, but you are wrong.
Lisamia! You always say what I’m thinking… but in 104 fewer words!
Hah! Thanks O.G. of the Shay. 🙂
You post made it to the site because you are a commenter here. There is a difference between trashing the blogger on a message board and trashing the blogger on the messageboard while violating copyright law. The trashing in this case shows that the copyright violations are intentional and down with malicious intent which leads to punitive damages.
The issue this blogger will have is collecting the damages because based on the presented intellectual capacity of the lawbreaker and their minimal education, it is likely they do not have the ability to pay. So then then messageboard owner themselves, who are accruing revenue based on the copyrighted material will have to pony up their revenue since they are complicit in the lawbreakers actions and benefiting from them financially.
I guess Queen B does not understand plagiarism. Queen B BEcause she is lower than whale shit on the bottom of the ocean.
Why are you reading all this speculation if you need to denigrate those who write these blogs? Does it make you feel morally superior?
My guesses are TT being stolen from. Since you mentioned maybe being in court with before, She by Sheree. However, you said, “Not the plaintiff” which then rules out Sheree and points to one of the other bloggers she sued. Someone please dig back through that case and confirm (I have a 102 fever and this comment was started a degree ago). Were they not M&D from 2 Atlanta-based blogs whose commenters lie in the 10th percentile in intelligence and the 99th percentile in cringe worthiness?
The bloggers that I went to court with against Sheree are in no way involved in this blind item. I am fond of both of their sites. And Michelle from SFTA has been a mentor to me since this blog began. I’ve gone to her in times of desperate need of help with this site, especially during the blog move and she has been great and never hesitates to offer to help.
Please don’t speculate on other bloggers here.
Sorry TT, my bad.
TT, I am very glad you told us that this is happening and am so very sorry that you are forced to deal with it. it! Am sure the majority here would do anything that would be helpful, and I will keep my thoughts focused on supporting you. If something comes up where we can be helpful p\ease let us know.
Am going back to reread your message . Am not familiar with blogging law and precedent but there must be a way for legitimate work product to be protected from just this issue. It doesn’t make sense that there would not already be precedent here. Words and their use are profoundly important, and ownership of knowledge or opinion/its sharing should be just what the court protects. Of course this naive sounding statement sounds very pollyanna-ish, but my sense is that generally these types of issues get sorted out correctly. Will hope that is exactly what happens here.
Isn’t the point of a blind item to speculate about the said blind item?
Okay, I’m getting it now. Yes, if someone has hurt your livelihood, I would certainly sue.
QueenB: TT isn’t a thief. She creates her own content or she cites her sources. These entertaining takes are then PUBLISHED on HER blog (which is what makes it a blog and not a news website)! The people who get paid to have their lives, decisions, personalities, flaws, children, cancer/ no cancer, etc. on TV are fair game to criticism and snark. They choose to make a living showing their asses and TT makes her living by creating intellectual property through this medium called “blogging.”
TL;DR: Stop trying to make “fetch” happen. And you’re never getting the red ball.
All I want to know is if someone thinks another blogger is full of shit then why would they constantly steal their stuff, not giving who they consider “the devil” his/her due and then proceed to talk shit about the said blogger on their site? Makes no damn sense. Hope they get their comeuppance financially, where it hurts. They obviously aren’t intelligent enough to realize some bloggers realize what they are doing or even that their dumbass can be taken to court. As I’ve said before, you can’t fix stupid but you can muffle it if you pull the duct tape tightly enough across the mouth Lmbo.
Oh by the way, kudos TT. Have at it.
Glued: um. Obvi. We don’t name names of other bloggers/blogs here.
This is why TT doesn’t allow BS in her threads!
Her is my question – TT deletes, or doesn’t allow some comments for reasons such as this. Wouldn’t the blog be responsible as well? They are allowing it. I just read some post on the other site (the one that someone else mentioned) WoW! Ignorant people at their finest. I want to educate the ignorant, but I have a early meeting. I think it’s worth it though. I am thinking – typing out loud. Sorry.
Scratch that idea! I have never been on a site and everything you click on takes you to malware, viruses etc.
There is a group trying to shut the entire site down bc of their bs.
Don’t fuck with our TT!
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