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Why John Smithson Doesn't Understand Copyrights

Posted by Kevin at 12:10 PM [August 31 -- jds]

If you haven't noticed, a frequent topic on this [Kevin Kelley's ] blog is John Smithson, a conservative Christian blogger who had made numerous baseless claims (as well as a meaningless "cease and desist") against this website. One particular subject matter is copyright infringement, mainly because Smithson had claimed that this website plagiarized the name of his similarly named website.

While Smithson's claims have been thoroughly debunked, it has come to the attention of this blog just why Smithson believes he is allowed to copy other people's works while attacking others - his son is a singing wrestling champion!

Editor's notes: Kelley took my blog name, Midknight Review, dropped the "k" and began writing political commentary. That is what we know. My blog was here first. If he was making any serious money, we would go after him. But we know that he lives off his wife's income and is worth next to nothing. Besides he is not worth the time to pursue. We do what we do here, just to get a little bit of defense out there to counter what Kelley writes onto the web. We have actually challenged him on two issues - offering to put up a $1,000 on each claim. If he were telling the truth, he would have tried to take the two "bets."

In a response to a thread on a religious message board Smithson frequents, someone posted a question regarding copyrighted material and if it was okay to post them online - here was Smithson's response:

And I think that you can duplicate what is written if you do not profit from it and/or it is not duplicated as a course of business (as a church does with their singing or a buisness does with the birthday song -- have you noticed that no business actually sings "Happy birthday to you .." It is because of the stinking law.) What G does is not in view. My Son is a worhsip leader and has his own band --------------- I will ask him. He will know because he is a State and Valley wrestling champion who sings.

I must have missed the part on the bar exam where they discuss musical scales and submission holds.

Smithson later commented on the thread that since no music or videos were posted, then they were okay, so by that logic it is safe to say that all printed material is free for the taking.

And Egon said "Print is dead..."

Editor's notes: this is one of the most disjointed posts Kevin Kelley has written about me. After reading or rereading his post, ask yourself this: exactly what is Kelley's official compliant? Understand that this jerk has taken time to search out my name on any number of conversation sites. While that is perfectly legal, these sites deal with subject matter that is a little above his pay grade.