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Ravenclawgurl
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:12 pm    Post subject: Autism speaks strikes again Reply with quote

remembember a few months a go when they threatened to sue some one? They did it again


check out this article about it on aspieweb.net

http://www.aspieweb.net/aspieweb-being-bullied-by-autism-speaks/
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

almost sounds like Scientology...Wink they're paranoid about their image as well...
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

But was that Autism Speaks or some automatic program on Zazzle? It looks like it wasn't Autism Speaks, and that it could be cleared up very easily, judging by the comments. Sorry, probably no fight this time. Sad Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Autism (doesn't) Speak can go straight to hell and take that other hate group FAAAS right down along with them.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Autism Speaks is like an ostrich with its head in the sand... completely oblivious to the fact that autistic adults exist and have an entitled right "... to peaceably to assemble, and to petition ... for a redress of grievances," (Article III, Amendment I, Constitution of the United States of America).
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CGKings317 wrote:
Autism Speaks is like an ostrich with its head in the sand... completely oblivious to the fact that autistic adults exist and have an entitled right "... to peaceably to assemble, and to petition ... for a redress of grievances," (Article III, Amendment I, Constitution of the United States of America).

Oh, silly you. Autistics can not be US Citizens, for we are "beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the [neurotypical] race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the [neurotypical] man was bound to respect."

(For anyone who didn't get the reference, that is a [modified] quote from Chief Justice Taney's decision in the Dred Scott Case)
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why do rich people need more money by suing people who make t-shirts online?

It's not like Zach used their logo or anything. It's a freaking name. I don't understand why Jenny Mccarthy is teaming up with them.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Anemone wrote:
But was that Autism Speaks or some automatic program on Zazzle? It looks like it wasn't Autism Speaks, and that it could be cleared up very easily, judging by the comments. Sorry, probably no fight this time. Sad Very Happy


I'm the owner of the site, it was based on a takedown notice from Autism Speaks.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zach, you can file a counter-notice to eliminate the DMCA takedown notice... if I read your website correctly, Autism Speaks filed a takedown notice based on a claim of copyright infringement. Copyright infringement does not apply in this case unless autism speaks actually owns the rights to your exact t-shirt design. If they have a claim at all, it would be for trademark infringement, not copyright, and you have a pretty good case for fair use.

Diebold, Inc was recently forced to pay $100,000 in fines and restitution for falsely filing DMCA takedown notices.

I sounds to me like your situation is similar to the diebold case...
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the advice.... I have writen a letter to zazzle quetsioning the takedown but have yet to recieve a responce and its been 24 hours.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is a form you can send them under the DMCA... I'll see if i can find you the link
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is a link to a web form you can use to generate a DMCA counter-notification:

http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca/counter512.pdf

Good Luck!
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is the responce I crafted up!

http://www.aspieweb.net/aspieweb-vs-autism-speaks-fight-for-the-right-for-autistics-to-speak/
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And I now have actual proof that Autism Speaks is directly responsible for this:
http://www.aspieweb.net/proof-that-autism-speaks-is-attacking-autism-self-advocacy/
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

damm them!
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