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Busting the Fudd Busters, Part II
To demonstrate how much the logic of copyright has rotted his brain, the President of The Gatalog Foundation insists that it was he, and not FPC, the NCLA or Mike Cargill, who won in the recent Garland v. Cargill decision. How did old Fudd Busters manage this achievement? You see, he commissioned the images in […]
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06.21.24
05.24.24
Memorial Day Weekend
There’s a weird trend in our space of ersatz anarchists more or less begging for federal protection of their files. Just a sample: Big maudlin. One blanches. It’s become a convenient piece of rhetoric that no one can sue DEFCAD because they’d have to give up anonymity. This is, of course, not true. Our Everytown […]
04.23.24
DD at the Supreme Court
Yesterday the Supreme Court granted certiorari in VanDerStok, the so-called “frame and receiver” case where Defense Distributed and Polymer80 are major intervenor plaintiffs. The case’s docket page can be found here. The Court has posted the case’s “Questions Presented” document, which you can download below. In short, these questions are: Briefing and Argument July 8 […]
03.14.24
Deadly Gifts
Yesterday Defense Distributed filed its long-delayed 3D gun brief with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. This one has become the grandfather case to determine the free speech value of CAD files. Its anomalous procedural history shows just how dangerous the federal courts have found it over the years. Gift Exchange Justin Lee at Compact […]