http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c78 Fri, 24 May 2013 17:01:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c78 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/10542823205/another-court-tells-prenda-to-pay-up-attorneys-fees.shtml#c156 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:59:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/10542823205/another-court-tells-prenda-to-pay-up-attorneys-fees.shtml#c156 So, it sounds like Lutz should pay this one...But that's taking food from the mouth's of Lutz's non-existent children!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c175 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:55:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c175
Maybe next time you should put in two seconds of thought to see if your point is valid.

He never claims this is a DMCA notice, mostly because it isn't one. Sending a DMCA notice to the infringer would make no sense, since they're not covered by the safe harbors anyway. A DMCA notice actually says "under penalty of perjury", which he does not state in this email - and if he's not stating anything under penalty of perjury, then he's obviously not committing perjury. Additionally, he owns the copyright, and that's the only thing that is covered by the "under penalty of perjury" part of a DMCA notice anyway.

So... um, what was your point supposed to be, again?

"Since when does "fair use" require attribution, and even if did, how are you going to enforce attribution without the exact same copyright regimen?"

Indeed, fair use does not require attribution (although it would seem the polite thing to do.) Maybe he's claiming this isn't fair use. And if it is NOT fair use, then he'd have the right to set conditions like attribution.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c60 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:54:17 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c60 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c45 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:52:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c45 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/10542823205/another-court-tells-prenda-to-pay-up-attorneys-fees.shtml#c145 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:51:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/10542823205/another-court-tells-prenda-to-pay-up-attorneys-fees.shtml#c145 Then go in for the removal of their jobs.
The victims need that justice.


AF Holdings going bankrupt would be a win. The noose tightens and there are loses.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/10542823205/another-court-tells-prenda-to-pay-up-attorneys-fees.shtml#c137 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:51:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/10542823205/another-court-tells-prenda-to-pay-up-attorneys-fees.shtml#c137
Evey time I check Techdirt lately, I feel like bringing popcorn and a soda.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c521 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:37:31 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/01462423203/ex-prenda-lawyer-brett-gibbs-pleads-poverty-to-judge-wright.shtml#c521
You would think being a lawyer (and not just some famous movie star) he would have had a little better understanding of how things were going to play out... Meaning his 'firm' was never going to show any profit from these efforts, all the funds will be in some offshore shell companies.

Consumers pay $1,000,000 in 'settlements'
Prenda - charges $2,000,000 in processing and handling fees
Shell companies - pocket $1,000,000 in cash and $2,000,000 in processing and handling fees.

I know it doesn't make any sense... IP math is HARD]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c894 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:32:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c894
Anything other than that understanding is called myopic thinking.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c682 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:22:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c682 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c876 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:22:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c876 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c162 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:19:31 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c162 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c24 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:18:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c24
Signed]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c677 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:17:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/21222323165/another-ca-cop-thinks-cell-phone-might-be-dangerous-weapon.shtml#c677 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1219 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:15:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1219 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c874 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:12:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c874 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c746 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:12:31 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c746 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1204 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:10:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/17515223193/riaa-copyright-reform-we-need-is-to-make-everyone-else-copyright-cops.shtml#c1204 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c737 Fri, 24 May 2013 16:08:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/19133923200/copyright-patent-its-all-same-to-worlds-third-largest-news-agency.shtml#c737 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/10542823205/another-court-tells-prenda-to-pay-up-attorneys-fees.shtml#c130 Fri, 24 May 2013 15:56:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/10542823205/another-court-tells-prenda-to-pay-up-attorneys-fees.shtml#c130
Lutz is a Paralegal who has worked for various Steele entities. Lutz in that brilliant Q&A with the Judge in Nyugen Case in florida ( where coincidentally Steele was present for a Prenda case...what are the odds!)

Lutz all of a sudden after Judge Wright put forth his Order To Show Cause, becomes CEO of AF Holdings and a bunch of it's entities and Brett Gibbs becomes Lawyer of Record for AF Holdings.

So Lutz who couldn't even answer the remotest questions about Sunlust Pictures and AF Holdings, and basic questions about who works there and claimed in the Q&A with the Judge to be just a "1099 contractor" is a mastermind able to organize Copyright Assignments and buying said copyrights and setting up LLC's and offshore trust's?

Yeah and Elvis is alive and working at 7-11. Lutz has worked for Steele for years and was the voice on the other end of those phone calls looking for Settlements that were robo-dialed to subscribers.

Now suddenly he is the corporate CEO master of business. Yes I doubt that. If you recall in the Deposition Of Hansmeier who appeared on the Behalf of AF Holdings (lordy, another coincidence!) couldn't name any officers of the company and that no one drew a salary every from there that he was aware.

Who knew Mark Lutz was such a humanitarian in working for all these companies and entities for free as CEO (of course while managing to do robo-calls and demanding settlement payments)

I wish I could make that historic rise form Debt collecting and Para-legal work to CEO. Lutz ought to give the good folks at MIT a call and relish them with his tale of how he rose from debt collector for Stelle to CEO of mnay companies, LLC's and offshore trusts.

Truly the American dream!]]>