On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 10:25:04AM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: > keith_w wrote: > > >David Savage wrote: > >> ...he's turning soft. > > > >Which "he" is that? Chuck Norris? > >Why do you say that? > > > >> <http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=339704> > >> > >> Could it be that his roundhouse kick solution to all problems has been > >> subverted by a more insidious force: > >> > >> Lawyers??? > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> Dave (well it made me laugh :-) > > > >I think the suit is appropriate and I hope it's successful. > > My first thought was that it was a suit against people passing those > silly "facts about Chuck Norris" around the Internet, which would be > silly and frivolous. But Penguin books *publishing* the stuff without > clearing it with Chuck Norris? They *do* deserve to be sued. (And > whoever greenlighted the project without running it by the company > lawyers should be shown the door...)
I doubt if that happened. I suspect the lawyers (not exactly a group known for risk taking) probably feel they have a good case. I think I agree with them. I see no significant difference from a legal standpoint between passing silly "facts" around on the internet (which you seem to feel is somehow OK) and publishing them in a book. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
