A colleague writes that if the world of copyright and intellectual property could be captured in the pages of a comic book, Michael Crook would be “the villain fighting Free Culture.”
Crook sent a fabricated DMCA takedown notice to the website 10 Zen Monkeys for posting a photo of him from a segment on Fox’s “Hannity & Colmes. He claimed that he held the copyright on the image (which he didn’t, it was held by Fox News).
The EFF & Jeff Diehl (owner of 10zenmonkeys.com) filed a lawsuit against Crook, leading to Crook’s withdrawl of the complaints.
EFF’s press release.
Apology on Blip.tv
