January 25, 2006
January 11, 2006
Eschaton and Intent To Annoy
Atrios is the pseudonym for a blogger who writes for the popular Eschaton blog. Three times today he posted critical comments of Arlen Specter and ended all of them by providing Specter's contact info and the exhortation that his readers call Specter and ask him provocative questions.
If many people called Specter and ask him provocative questions, Specter may well be annoyed.
Does Specter have a cause under the new Intent to Annoy law (that he had a hand in drafting)? Can he force Atrios to testify as to his 'intent'?
Atrios provides a link to what he says is his real name. Is that a complete defense? Does Atrios have to forego anomynity because of this law?
More on Intent to Annoy here from Professor Volokh, (emphasizing that for purposes of anti-stalking laws, one-to-one communications such as phone and emial, are qualitatively different from one-to-many communications, such as websites.
November 02, 2005
Patry on Spoofs
Hard to summarize. See here.
October 25, 2005
Discuss Parody Defense To Inevitable Demand Letter
October 19, 2005
Scientology v. Scientomogy
The Church of Scientology has protested the use of SCIENTOMOGY.INFO by a website parodying Scientology and famous Scientologist, Tom Cruise.
See Lamparello v. Falwell (re use of FALLWELL.COM to comment on Rev. Falwell).
