And the grounds for this shite? Copyright infringement! FFS if you don’t want naked selfies of yourself posted on the internet, don’t take the fuckers in the first place you dozy bugger!
Anyhow, at the threat of being forced to remove said ‘copyright infringement’ or face legal closure of the site – what price free speech now? – we’ve removed the picture. We’ve also been told that we can’t publish the letter but fuck ’em. If you don’t want it made public then don’t fucking write it in the first place
Here it is, names blanked out to protect the guilty…
Hello,
Unfortunately we’re experiencing an issue with your website or account and need your help to remedy the situation ASAP. Failing to respond to this notice via email or ticket with our Abuse department could lead to suspension or termination of your account(s). The following is a description of the issue:
Username: *********
Domain: is-a-cunt.com
Host: false
IP Address: ***.***.***.***
Abuse Type: Copyright Infringement
We received the attached notice of copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”).
YOU MUST REMOVE THE ALLEGEDLY INFRINGING MATERIAL WITHIN 48 HOURS OF THIS EMAIL BEING SENT TO YOU, OR YOUR ACCOUNT AND ALL ASSOCIATED WEBSITES WILL BE DISABLED.
If you do not believe the material infringes the copyrighted work, please provide us with a counter notification containing the following information:
1. Your name, address, phone number, and physical or electronic signature;
2. Identification of the material claimed not to infringe the copyright(s) and enough information to locate it;
3. Your consent to the jurisdiction of U.S. District Court in the address provided above, or if you are located outside the United States, the jurisdiction of U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification above; and
4. Include the following statement: “I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this counter notification is accurate and I have a good faith belief that each identified material above should not be removed or disabled.”
Even if you send a counter notification, the material must still be removed within 48 hours of this message. If you do not remove the alleged infringing material, your website will be suspended, and will remain suspended at least ten (10) days. If you provide the proper counter notification, we will reverse the suspension of your website within ten (10) to fourteen (14) business days provided we have not received notice the complainant has filed action seeking a court order to maintain the suspension.
NOTE: You may be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) if you materially misrepresent that a product or activity is not infringing the copyrights of others. Accordingly, if you are not sure whether certain material infringes the copyrights of others, we suggest that you first contact your own attorney. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us.
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PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
Dear Sirs,
We refer to your email below of 7 October to which we respond as follows, adopting the same numbering:
1&2. The copyrighted work is the “selfie” image (“the Image”) of our client undressed at his home, which is being published at the following URL https://is-a-cunt.com/2014/10/brooks-newmark/.
The image was self-evidently taken by our client and he owns the copyright in it. The Image has never been published with our client’s consent. It was first published without our client’s consent in 2014, having been disclosed, also without our client’s consent, by an individual to whom our client had sent it in confidence. Our client has not given, and does not give, you permission to publish the Image. The publication of the Image at the URL above is in breach of his copyright.
3. We may be contacted at the email addresses *********.*******@carter-ruck.com and *******.******@carter-ruck.com at the postal address Carter-Ruck, 6 St Andrew Street, London EC4A 3AE; and by telephone at +44 (0)20 7353 5005.
4. I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
5. I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
We await your urgent response, and confirmation that the Image will be removed from publication at the webpage identified above, and not republished in any form.
All of our client’s rights are reserved.
Yours faithfully,
Carter-Ruck
********* **********
Senior Associate, Carter-Ruck
********.******@carter-ruck.com
Carter-Ruck Solicitors
6 St Andrew Street
London EC4A 3AE
T 020 7353 5005
F 020 7353 5553
DX 333 Chancery Lane
www.carter-ruck.com
One of the UK’s best-known law firms, Carter-Ruck has a longstanding reputation for its expertise in the field of litigation and dispute resolution.
Carter-Ruck is a CarbonNeutral® company. Think of the environment. Do you need to print this email?
Nominated by: A Cunt Who Cunts Cunts
If this is the case then, is the mardy cunt going to get ALL internet pictures of him naked removed (they’re all over the inter web still) with the threat of legal action as well, and that goes to several national newspapers?
If you don’t want the world to see you naked, don’t send naked selfiies…….
In the words of Captain Mainwaring……..Stupid boy!!!
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Didn’t want to use me normal cuntishness name…..just in case…
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You have to see the funny side of this.
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Actually I just googled it and I am glad you took it down.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=brooks+newmark+naked&client=tablet-android-samsung&prmd=insv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjx0s_45aLQAhWCL8AKHVLeDOQQ_AUIBygB&biw=601&bih=962
They can sue google now, and the sun ect.
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They didn’t say you cant print portions of the letter, so as the names are gone and it not entire, in the absence of Any part they can go fuck themselves.
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But according to this, dumb animals cannot own copyright.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/22/monkey-business-macaque-selfie-cant-be-copyrighted-say-us-and-uk
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Isn’t the guardian technically a monkey business?
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I’m not surprised that he wanted it removed.The man is obviously hung like a hamster on a cold morning.If I was endowed with a micro-penis,I wouldn’t want the world to know either.Of course, if he hadn’t felt the need to “selfie” the offending member,nobody except the short-changed object of his affections would have been any the wiser.
He should consider investing in a penis extension or zoom lens if he wants to continue in his sordid habit…otherwise he’ll just look like an idiot with a short dick,instead of just a run-of-the-mill idiot.
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Having a unfortunate mirco penis is like god’s way of saying “go fuck yourself you cunt!” but oh wait you can’t because its too small Hahaha
The cruel joke of life’s mysteries
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I’m prepared to send his daughter, Lily, a sketch (I don’t have a selfie stick) of my magnificent member.She looks like she might do a turn.
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Haha the Daily mail have got their revenge by sharing the pictures of him again plus some ones of his 21 year old model daughter .What a fail!
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Given that the photo was already in the public domain, surely this applies:
https://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p09_fair_use
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An acquaintance of mine, loosely work related, in a former life had been at one of these firms.
The boss at the time (all lawyers) said: “If it’s out there you have two options, embrace it and it goes away and no ones cares, fight it and you fight it forever and no matter what good you do, the first question you will be asked on any interview will always be about this.”
This was before the age of the super injunction where, even with one, everyone knows who it is and what it is, they just can’t print or say anything about it (like it doesn’t exist) – but everyone still knows about it. Only available to the super rich I may hasten to add! Cunts!
But in fairness how stupid can you be? These cunts taking pics of themselves in the nuddy or giving a BJ in the day an age where as soon as it’s taken it can be viewed by billions of people.
All walks of life including MPs. Then you have remoaning cunts stating that “…tough decisions like these should be left to the politicians who know what’s best…” yeah fuck that, most MPs are self-serving fuckwits who are as bright as Aladdin’s lamp, even the career cunts who went from OxBridge straight into Westminster. Idiots the lot o’ them.
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Superinjunctions?
https://chascmusic.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/superinjunction/
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Why is he bringing this back up now? It has been 2 years, more or less forgoten about and yet now he wants to force his micro penis back under public scrutiny. A similar demand of cease and decist went to the Spectator, must have cost a few bob. So why?
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Maybe that’s the issue. If he’d been hung like a hoss he’d by saying: “Yeah, that’s all me baby!” and wearing it like a badge of honour.
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Another fucking tim farron type.
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What, a treacherous cunt?
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This particular ‘news story’ completely passed me by when it came out, so my first thought was “who is Brooks Newmark?”; well I now know & also why he ignominiously resigned. I would further surmise that there are folk who had totally forgotten about this unpleasantness but now remember it, so I guess Carter Ruck’s action to make it all go away has backfired somewhat. There must be a term that encapsulates this kind of stupidity, (both the original knob out photo & the subsequent action), oh yes, it’s come to me – cuntish!
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Apart from “cuntish” you are right – it does have a real name: The Barbara Streisand Effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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Firstly, you can’t copyright the image, the copyright is with the person who created the image (pressed the button on the camera), since it’s a selfie we can presume he took it himself, so he is the copyright holder.
The copyright law on the reuse of images is very strict. If someone publishes an image on something like Flickr, you can’t legally just download the image and use it on your own website. However, there are different copyright licences, so you can publish stuff under a “creative commons license” without asking permission if you accredit the copyright holder and display the licence. If not under creative commons, you can ask permission from someone to reuse their image, if given, you must accredit the original copyright holder.
So “Copyright AndyC All rights reserved” and “Copyright AndyC and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons license.”
Then link back to the licence, both legally ok
It’s a bit more complex with Facebook and the like, part of their terms and conditions is that they “own” the copyright to any image that you upload, and they can do what they like with it.
So legally they are correct, you are in breach of copyright, but clearly it’s just being done to save their client embarrassment, nothing to do with copyright being broken.
Written text is different, I would say that reproducing the legal letter is “reasonable reuse for educational purposes”, because you are educating us on the dangers of breaking copyright law.
Sorry for the boring explanation !
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And that’s the very reason, my Fuckbook account has not got or will I post any, pictures/photos of me, mine or anyone else on there……Fuckbook ‘claim’ them and God only know where they might or what be used for……cunts…
Rarely go on to be fair, only when I want to be a nosey cunt..
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Just a word of sympathy for those few scotchlanders who read ISAC. Try not to think of a humiliating 3 – 0 kicking against a team of has beens who couldn’t beat Iceland as being in any way a reflection of your grate nation. After all it was only 3 goals without reply so I’m sure the high court would over rule it.
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I hear Tim Farron and Bob Geldof think the match should be replayed…(in the interests of ‘democracy’).
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The problem for Scotland lay in wearing the effeminate pink shirts. Their players kept passing the ball to Raheem Sterling because he runs like a girl and they thought he was one of them. So it was 10 against 12 which are poor odds, even against has beens.
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Can’t imagine the likes of Law, Bremner, Souness, McQueen, Buchan, Hansen,Jordan, McGrain, Burns, Robertson, Gemmil etc wearing those poofy pink shirts…
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Well done acwcc,fuck um, more ways to skin a perv,and resurrecting these things once in a while is great, just to remind everyone what a count this peeve is, who he is and what he does even if he is out of the job now, you don’t retire from being a perverted little count…… and solicitors flying vulture cunts…….if there is ever a purge like the film I reckon policies protecting pervs will be massacred first
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I would like to go slightly off topic and nominate plate robbers for a cunting.
My girlfriend has a very anoying habit, We will go out for a meal and she will pick at my plate.
Now to clarify the situation, when I offer the menu and say “have what you like” I meen it, you are not restricted in price or volume as to what you may consume, However in return for this act of kindness by myself I expect my own food to go un molested.
I think that this is a fair arrangement, the fact that we occasionally exchange bodily fluids does not give you the right to nick my mushrooms (whilst saying” I really like mushrooms”) because these very same mushrooms were advertised on the menu that I provided you with earlier and said “have what you like”!
I order food that I like so that I may consume it, I in courage you to do the same and not stray on to my plate.
However I do find this cunting rather difficult to pen due to my relationship with the culprit, it’s a very anoying habit, please desist.
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Just work on a “one mushroom, one blow job” basis under a free trade agreement. It makes sense
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I agree. It’s proper kermit behaviour. You see it all over the third world, uncivilised vermin all scoffing off the same plate, all using their hands which the have just wiped their arse with. Cunts.
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A horrible trick. Of course subtlety and finesse are required to gently steer the offender onto the right path…. I find that screaming “Get the fuck out of my cheesy chips,you greedy bugger” while stabbing her hand with the plastic fork works well.
Hope this helps.
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I find a bloody good jab in the hand with a fork usually surfaces….
I had work colleague that did that all the time.
You’d be in either the canteen or even the pub, sitting there, enjoying a pint( pub), chowing down on ya plate of chips and she’d breeze in and say “Oooh, chips” and help herself.
The first time I strugged it off, as she only took a couple but then it became the fucking norm, and every time more food was taken…….no, STOLEN.
I even offered to buy the cheeky cunt some but, nooooo, mine tasted better, apparently.
One day I got so fucked off with her, (In my defence, I’d had a really shite day at work and wasn’t in the best of moods)
As she swooped in like a fucking greedy shitehawk, I jabbed her in the hand with my fork, pretty hard too. I know it was a bit harsh but it worked, she never did it again…….the cheeky cunt.
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So basically I got my solicitors to write to one of the websites that had the naked selfie of me that everyone that uses the website were either ignorant of or long forgotten about and made them take it down.
A small victory but tainted by the fact that it reminded everyone of the whole sorry epidisiode and brought it to the attention of even more people and now they know and are looking at the bloody picture too.
I did a stupid thing at the time and I now realise that all I have achieved is waking the sleeping dog and stirring the whole bloody mess up again.
I hope know one thinks I am a bit of a cunt, apart from my legal team who I am sure had a good giggle over the expensive lunch I just paid for.
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You can just imagine the converstation “listen, someone has posted a picture of my todger without permissions on a site called “is a cunt”, can you get the cunts to remove it from the cunt ?
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it should have been posted on is-a-prick-but smaller
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Many thanks to Carter-Fuck for reminding me of this sub-human tosser. What an epic cunt.
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I fully support the right to free speech unless its me they are talking about.
Cunts motto.
I do not like the person/result of the last democratic vote so I will wet my pants and cry then stand around in a street and get CS gassed.
Because I am a cunt
Anyone who does not agree with my views regarding migrants, LGBT persons nonces etc etc is a nasty facist bastard and I really really hate them so much like.
I have shown to the World I am a total cunt and in an ideal universe I will die from Mongolian arse rot. However this universe not being ideal I will end up in the house of commons then a smooth move to the house of lords.
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These ambulance chasing pricks should have their assets seized, be stripped down to their pants then turned loose into the streets to fend for themselves. Useless fucking parasite bastards.
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Just caught up with this Carter Fuck bizzo. Very amused by it at the time. Brought back a few laughs. ISAC should be honoured to be Carter Fucked at last. Puts Dioclese in the same bed as his mate Ian Hislop.
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Funny you should say that old son…
https://dioclese.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/an-open-letter-to-ian-hislop/
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So we start off with a letter regarding a little prick and end up on a letter to a small prick.
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