Aspies For Freedom

Today i received a legal document signed by 30 lawers global saying they are suing me for $90,000 reasons:
Copyright infringement
Funds Lost
And -1million Worth of Supporters Decline (cant be i got 1 hit per day on that site)
So the semi-popular site http://ntspeaks.org has been closed.

They also said any other websites to use the Autism Speaks Logo's, Phrases, And All Trade Marked Material Against Them Will Receive A Lawsuit As Well.

Minors cant do counter sue's and i dont want my parents to know about it. if they do i swear ill be disowned, or send to military school or something.

My supervisors plan was to bed for mercy... and i cant do anything without his approval

I can't say I know much about this sort of thing, but I'll see if I can find any helpful advice. Hopefully we can make this turn in our favor.

CALL BILL FOR ACTION!!!! (you know what im talking about right? have you seen our local news?)

call bill for action (ABC news guy)

Andreas, I will seriously call for you (even just to get advice), if you won't do it. Just call them (or ask me to) and see what they will tell us.

If they try, I will be countersueing

BTW, for any media people looking at this, this is the contact info from the other thread

Well you know that Autism Speaks needs to spend their donation money anyway they can.  (usually not helping people or families with autism).  

Usually an organization would send a warning letter and asking someone to stop using their copyrighted materials and say they would be contacting their lawyers if it did not stop.  That saves a huge amount of money.  Laywers cost $$$$ per hour and thirty of them, even more.  

What a load of ***** this whole thread is.   I wonder if people could all make up their own t-shirts with NTspeaks on them (using their own iron-on transfers and no selling of them) what they could do.  Even making homemade signs and protesting.  I could see some organization getting upset at someone making money off counterfeits using their logos -- but this is really stupid.  They suck.

More coverage:

http://kittyradio.com/soapbox/news-polit...-teen.html
http://ginaminks.com/2008/01/22/autism-s...literally/

Even total crackpots like Dan Olmstead and Kim Stagliano are all over it:  http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/01/autism-speaks-m.html

Abscout's story is the number one google news result for the search terms "autism speaks" and it's on the front page of the regular google results for the same terms.  Actually, looking at the news results, we see that Autism Speaks is having a bad week- there's almost no positive stories; they're getting flak for the vaccine thing and what Trump said about it, for this story, and for where their money goes.  Now is the time to really push this story out into the mainstream- we have the opportunity to bring Autism Speaks to their knees.

Anyone seen the New Scientist article on this yet?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19...arity.html

I can't read the whole article on New Scientist unless I subscribe.  Did they quote some of us?

These comments about her parents not being responsible of abscout's actions on the internet provokes me - shouldn't teenagers be allowed to make parody sites?

Some of this may already have been brought up, but if you cannot win using a parody argument, then consider this:

The amount that can be awarded under copyright infringement should be limited to measurable damages, as in what you earned that they might have earned, on the assumption that donors were confused.  Note that we are talking about confused donors ONLY, not ones who read your site, understand that it is not the Austism Speaks site, and based on what they have learned choose not to donate.  So, I would start building your case on the facts, profiling who your hits represent, how they got there, and their reasons for being there.  That SHOULD adequately distinguish you from the situations damages could be awarded for.

Not that I am a lawyer or anything; this is just what I have learned over the years.

Old thread. Personally, if autism speaks do try to actually sue (they actually just used intimidation to get control of the domain name) they'll find someone (me) who's willing to help out in abscout's legal defence. I've also practically dared them to sue for ntspeaks.com and .net, they've been intelligent thus far.