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10/07/09
Crying Sweet Baby Jesus, I cannot believe I just wrote that.
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10/07/09
The fellow says that he got a call from a clerk at an airline, who threatened to call the police if he didn't return to the airport immediately. He doesn't say whether or not he returned the bag, but implies that he didn't because he then claims the clerk went home and told her son about him, who said something to somebody on the internet.
Or did he mean that the clerk called him, then revealed his name against company policy to whomever's bag he stole, when he wouldn't make arrangements to switch bags - don't airlines have contractors who do that - and then the victim recognized his name, remembered it and told her son, who might've have read a credit on an eleven year old movie?
I don't know that he's totally delusional.
He also sounds rather dumb to me.
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So I'm going to put him on the shelf right next to Kevin Smith. Neither are allowed to speak until they have one good new idea post 1997.
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04/12/09
Even if DoucheBook chose not to honor the original contract, they would still have to have some agreement in place that gave them publication rights. Just imagine, for instance, what would happen if they simply cut-and-pasted pieces from other sites, then published them as their own with no credit or compensation. Big zero. And no different from what they've done here.
Even better, these morons have put their open disregard for copyright law in writing. I suppose that's what's to be expected when you run an operation too shitty to hire competent counsel, and so small ball that the CEO has to sign every check personally.
If 'there will be no further payments' (for work that hasn't been paid for at all) then there will be no further use of that work, and a bill for the fair market value of the use they've made to date.
Bottom line: it's not theirs to publish.
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