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Xeogaming Forums - General Chat - FunnyJunk wants $20,000 from The Oatmeal after being called out for stealing | | | |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 646 days Last activity: 455 days |
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FunnyJunk, one of those sites that people post other people's work onto (minus their watermarks, credit, permission, etc), is threatening to sue TheOatmeal for his rant against them.
A year ago, TheOatmeal posted about FunnyJunk publishing his comics on their site, making sure to crop out/erase his website from the bottoms of the images. People link to these posts and FunnyJunk collects on the ad revenue from all the page clicks. Recently, FunnyJunk hired a lawyer to threaten TheOatmeal for allegedly spreading false accusations and damaging their reputation, demanding $20,000 from him or they would drag him to court. SOURCE TheOatmeal then put forth that he has begun raising donations for the $20,000 (he's gone from $16,000 to $27,000 in the last hour), but saying that he will donate half to the National Wildlife Federation and the other half to the American Cancer Society. Seriously, though, $20,000 for what? Blackmail? Give us this money or else? I almost want to see this go to court and have the judge laugh at them and demand FunnyJunk LLC pay TheOatmeal. (Last edited by Rogue on 06-11-12 08:20 PM) |
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Wow, that is seriously stupid. I don't even know how they think they can get away with that. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 646 days Last activity: 455 days |
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He's about to hit $50,000 in donations.
This is the most awesome fuck you to a company ever. |
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I think that it took less than 30 minutes to reach 20k.
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Originally posted by Ψ In just 7 hours he hit $76,000. Astounding. |
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He broke $100,000 overnight.
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Update: The douchebag attorney's apparently trying to get IndieGoGo to take down the fund, claiming it violates their Terms of Service.
In the meantime, Matt's cracked $125,000 for the NWF and American Cancer Society. I love it, giving to charity with a vengeance! (Last edited by Rogue on 06-12-12 10:36 PM) |
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Cteno Super Shotgun Moderator Since: 01-11-05 Since last post: 105 days Last activity: 102 days |
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Always loved TheOatmeal... now I love TheOatmeal even more. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Now the lawyer who was handling FunnyJunk's side of the case has filed a lawsuit against TheOatmeal AS WELL AS IndieGoGo, the National Wildlife Federation AND the American Cancer Society.
Not sure whether this is remarkably tragic or incredibly hilarious. (Last edited by Rogue on 06-18-12 05:12 PM) |
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I was going to just amend the latest post, but this needs its own post.
The lawyer wrote his own poem/rap(?) about the situation with TheOatmeal. Originally posted by Charles Carreon (Last edited by Rogue on 06-18-12 05:12 PM) |
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The Oatmeal doing funny things with the shitload of money. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This makes me happy. Very happy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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So apparently the attorney dropped his case, but still declared victory. Idiot. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Astrophel Fear will kill your mind and steal your love as sure as anything; Fear will rob you blind and make you numb to others suffering Since: 10-03-04 From: Azul Lux Orbital, Kirin Beta Since last post: 2493 days Last activity: 1343 days |
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Originally posted by Rogue I can kind of see the logic behind that - he wasn't beaten in court, after all. I don't think that's gonna help him though. |
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