Filmmakers use DMCA to go after negative review
Dwiff sez, "Pissed off filmmaker BJ DAVIS sues film reviewer for panning his film - and uses DMCA to do it.
I guess nobody told BJ that all's fair in Fair Use & war..."
In case you haven’t heard, director and producer BJ Davis and his wife Julia Davis want to sue me over a negative review I wrote of the mob comedy Forget About It. Seriously. Despite BJ officially serving me “legal notice” through an e-mail, I still don’t know what I’m being sued over. The original e-mail sent to me by Julia Davis said, and I quote, “illegally using artwork to the feature film “Forget About It” and disseminating fraudulent, misleading and materially false information about the film in question.” For one, using artwork in a review would undoubtedly fall under fair use laws. Secondly, Allumination Filmworks likely owns the artwork used to promote Forget About It to U.S. DVD buyers. And third, court papers posted at Big Screen Entertainment’s website cast doubt on whether or not BJ Davis even owns the movie’s copyright at this point.Link
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Don't bother your lawyer about it yet.
I will never watch "Forget about it".
You can forget about that, BJ Davis!
...What a maroon...
Ditto - BJ Davis has just made sure I won't be spending a cent on that movie.
Might download it one day, though. If I have a few meg left at the end of the month and absolutely nothing to use it on. Maybe.
Legal notice via email? Ha. Ha. Ha! Make them use a lawyer to send a real letter, registered or served. Flashing a "We're gonna sue you" card is easy. Actually doing so takes time, money and more money.
Davis comes off sounding pretty nuts with all that conspiracy stuff. He's also a moron because no one would ever have heard about this review without his crazy threats.
Yeah, any "legal notice" served from a stranger via email can be safely ignored. Email isn't a verifiable communication.
(Note to Outlook users: Turn off automatic deliver-receipt and read-receipt generation.)
I made the mistake of renting that dog of a film a few nights ago. The title says it all.
Sue me.
what a weenie. Uwe Boll knows how to deal with bad reviews without hiding behind lawyers. These people could learn from him.
Well, this movie now has a higher profile than it ever did - BJ Davis is a clever guy. He got his movie on Boing Boing! Just by acting like an ignorant jerk. No such thing as bad publicity, etc....
That's not true. Bad publicity most certainly exists.
I am not a lawyer, but maybe one could say somewheres, but isn't there some legal morass involved in threatening to sue some one and then not filing suit in a given amount of time?
Also, I have to agree that there is such a thing as bad publicity.