Comments on: Guido Fawkes is a blogging nuisance

By: New Statesman Blog Caught Between Threats From Iraqi Billionaire and Wikileaks « Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:16:10 +0000

[...] been tested in court yet. Back in February the pseudo-libertarian blogger Paul Staines threatened to sue Liberal Conspiracy for linking to a posting about him on Tim Ireland’s Bloggerheads, but [...]

By: Brit Blog Wars: Police Contacted « Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion

Brit Blog Wars: Police Contacted « Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:17:51 +0000

[...] Staines has on more than one occasion made threats against bloggers (including, in one instance, demanding that the Liberal Conspiracy website remove a hyperlink to critical material, which is an area of [...]

By: a very public sociologist

a very public sociologist — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:22:20 +0000

I find this all very bizarre. As Staines has gotten more popular why does he feel the need to get more litigious? He’s making himself look like a laughing stock.

By: Small Beds and Large Bears » Blog Archive » Buck up, Tim, or: what a total webring

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:02:03 +0000

[...] It’s happening again, of course, and in response I post this. This time, a lawyer acquanitance of Paul Guido Staines Fawkes is trying to compel Tim Ireland to reveal his home address. This request seems to be tied to some observations Tim made about image links between certain websites, and is eyepoppingly ironic in the circumstances. [...]

By: The Obscurer

The Obscurer — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:12:07 +0000

A Penny For The Old Guy…

A couple of years ago, when talking about Guido Fawkes and his role (or lack of it) in Mark Oaten’s withdrawal from that month’s Lib Dem leadership race, I signed off by saying that “with luck our paths won’t cross again”. Well, no such luck …

By: ourman

ourman — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:10:47 +0000

I also offered my support here:

http://snipurl.com/1z8wv

By: Tim Ireland

Tim Ireland — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:59:50 +0000

Something I hope to cover in a ‘long and boring’ discussion on UK libel law, Bartholomew. Along with a few other matters such as the legacy of the Duke of Brunswick.

Thanks again to everyone for their suuport.

By: Unity

Unity — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:59:31 +0000

It’s worth pointing out that, in legal terms, Guido’s comment that ‘I do rip off images from the BBC website because I regard them as public property’ is an utter nonsense.

For one thing, what Guido regards as public property and what the law regards as public property are two very different things, and the law regards the BBC as having the same rights to ownership of intellectual property as anyone else.

Second, there is every possibility that the material that Guido admits to ‘ripping off’ may well not be that of the BBC but that of a third party which the BBC is using under licence – although use of attributions on third party material is always good practice it is not obligatory unless the owner insists on an attribution as part of their terms of use and its a common enough practice for media organisations to pay the copyright owner a small premium for the rights to use third party material without attribution.

By: Bartholomew

Bartholomew — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:32:00 +0000

It would be good to get a judgement on whether someone can be liable simply for linking to material that ia considered libellous. There’s a fear that it might be (based on an old case that involved someone pointing at a libellous sign), but I don’t think there has ever been an actual case. Also, it’s so easy to circumvent such a restriction with some well-chosen suggestions for a Google search that it’s just a pointless annoyance. It also seems to me that providing a link is really just the same thing as providing a reference to a source in a footnote.

By: Mike Power

Mike Power — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:02:22 +0000

If any mischief makers out there are interested, I own the domain: PaulStaines.com

I never got around to doing anything with it but you’re more than welcome to use it to piss off ‘Guido’.
Just email me via my website.

By: Dave Cole

Dave Cole — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:12:20 +0000

http://davecole.org/blog/2008/02/01/a-brief-statement/

I’m with Tim.

xD.

By: Sim-O

Sim-O — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:37:08 +0000

*cough cough*

By: Aaron Heath

Aaron Heath — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:54:49 +0000

Sorry for dropping you in the shit, Sunny.

I do have this talent…

;o)

By: Jim Bliss

Jim Bliss — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:53:15 +0000

Further support for Tim, here: News from the Blog Wars