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Blevins on the DZ about Peterson...

June 23, 2013
Placing Sheridan in the US at the time of Cooper is a difficult job. We know that the year before the hijacking, one of his two children was born in Nepal. There is a statement from the doctor that Sheridan was very excited, and was also in attendance for the birth. I have posted this stuff up previously. I'm still trying to contact him with an offer to publish his anti-war book, but he's a tough cookie to get hold of._



April 22, 2014
I just sent him a detailed message offering to make his book available for the Amazon Kindle for free. I told him we had similar views on civil rights and unnecessary wars, and a few other things, gave him all my contact information, etc. We will see if he responds.

[snowmman]

It's so weird that Blevins acts like this is some big huge deal.

There's probably 10 people in the world that would bother buying a copy of Sheridan's book.

I suspect Blevins really wants to promote it as a DBC mystery and try to stoke sales that way.

I follow Sheridan's lead: it's a Vietnam documentary. Although my opinion is that it's weird.

Maybe Sheridan wants Blevins to promote it as a DBC mystery, along with movie option contracts etc. Basically like the way he's milking his Christiansen thing.

Maybe Blevins wants a whole DBC mystery category in his publishing.

He's like a mad dog on this. Although I guess he's always a mad dog.

I like the idea of Blevins spending money on Sheridan. ....
See Bruce, you can be desolate, living on the cheap in Windsor, and people will rally around you and make good things happen for you..purely out of the goodness of their heart.

Soon, Bruce's trailer will levitate also.

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I think if he really had communication with Peterson he would of been non stop with his demands and Peterson would of reached out to 377.

I don't recall him posting anything about SP after 2014. the DZ thread was closed a year later.

[snowmman]

I sent Sheridan a copy of his book yesterday. Should get it by Sat or Sun.
I included a short letter explaining what I did, and my contact info in case he forgot it.

Sheridan's current address is hard to be sure of. I sent it to by best guess based on available info.

If anyone is confident they know Sheridan's current address and would PM me, that would be great.
I won't post or share it.

I figured I'd wait and see if it got delivered or returned.

After Blevins gets me thrown in jail, I figure when I get out I can move to Nepal and write a literary documentary that tells it like it is: exposes the truth behind the DBC Vortex...name names, reveal the big money going on behind the scenes...the sex, the drugs. All of it.

[snowmman]

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, first-time copyright infringement cases can carry a fine of up to $250,000 and up to five years in prison. If you get caught more than once in a copyright-infringement case, you could face additional fines of up to $250,000 and up to 10 years in prison.

If you are found guilty of copyright infringement, you can be ordered to pay damages. The amount of damages depends on the amount of lost profits from the infringement and the number of times you infringed on the copyright. You may also be ordered to pay legal fees.

Civil Lawsuit. To enforce his copyright, a copyright owner may file a lawsuit in federal court, alleging infringement by a defendant. In court, the copyright holder must prove that his copyright is valid and that the defendant's actions infringed upon his statutory rights.

If you are sending a copyright infringement threat letter, that is a project which will typically cost you somewhere between $1,500 and $3,000. If you are filing a lawsuit or legal claim in court alleging copyright infringement, the attorney fee and cost of that case could be well into six figures.

Five years isn't that long, is it?
Lost profits? Hmm. that might be a couple hundred bucks?

I suppose what I need is a letter from Sheridan giving me copyright permission.
I don't really know if what he filed in 2001 and copyrighted, is the same as what I published.
It'd be nice to see the 2001 document, to know.

I suppose minimally the author and title is copyrighted.
I have no idea about the text.

Maybe I need to change the title and author?
I was thinking:
A Non Book
by
Anon Anon

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Snow, I think you'll survive. Peterson would have to go after you himself, as a third party cannot do anything without permission in writing. No power. And if I recall, you said you'd give him the money anyway, so there would be no damages. It would be different if you said the book was written by a skyjacker. Then you open another can of worms. But this is arguably tribute and philanthropy, absent contact with the author.

The only potential issue would be if someone falsely accused you of something additional to be vindictive. Which is always a possibility.

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Reality?

Neither one has the money to pursue any copyright infringement $$$$

nobody's going to jail..has anyone really ever went to prison over infringement?

how about this one..

 November 10, 1969: The youngest American on record to attempt to hijack a plane when a Delta Air Lines flight en route from Cincinnati to Chicago was hijacked by 14-year-old David Booth. US Attorney George Kline of Lexington, Kentucky declined to prosecute Booth saying that the federal government did not have facilities to handle prosecution of juveniles.

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All adult criminal defendants are entitled to a SPEEDY jury trial. Defense lawyers routinely waive their clients right to a speedy trial. If they did not, the court system would clog up so fast it would make your head spin. So Snow could just refuse to waive time which is what it is called. I would advise Snow to enter an explicit demand for a speedy trial at his arraignment. That is not really necessary but it would show the judge that he has a wild man defendant who is not going to go with the local customary protocol. Likely outcome? Dismissal. Case is such small potatoes. The case cannot be brought in state court. Has to be fed court on criminal copyright charges. Fed courts are jammed with deadly serious cases. Snow cannot be compelled to testify. Putting together a successful prosecution would consume a lot of time and resources. How do you prove beyond a reasonable doubt who Snowmman is? It can be done but is time consuming. Internet sites routinely oppose demands to identify users in non terrorism cases. It takes time to compel compliance. Meanwhile the speedy trial clock is ticking.

Intent is relevant in any criminal case. Would a jury infer criminal intent in Snows acts? Highly doubtful. All proceeds are paid directly to Sheridan. Sheridans entreaty for publication and distribution would also be considered by a jury.

None of this is likely to happen. The federal courts and prosecutors have no time for penny ante criminal IP cases. They would say go pursue a civil case.

I am surprised Sheridan would even think about having Snow jailed as Blevins reports. I think he is probably being coached into a rage, although Sheridan is never far from raging.

Blevins says that he can block Snows attempts to publish on Lulu. If he does, all that is left is three paperbacks. Hardly worth a fuss.

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[snowmman]

I"m trying to understand Blevin's motivation in all this.
The only thing that makes sense to me, is that Blevins must have some kind of deal like his Christiansen movie options contract, where he can make big money.

Maybe Blevins financial plan doesn't kick in until Sheridan's death? i.e. if Blevins gets Sheridan to sign a publishing contract, maybe Blevins retains rights that he can sell, like he apparently sells "rights" over the Christiansen story.

It amazes me that Blevins can sell "rights" related to a dead person's life. (Christiansen).

Blevins seems to be doing some ambulance chasing to me. What if he causes so much stress in Sheridan's life, that it amounts to elder abuse?

Whatever the story with Blevins, I'll eventually succeed in getting the printed book and my information to Sheridan. He's texted me before this year. I thought we left on good terms. I had hassled him a lot about details of his family life in email a year or so ago. He didn't seem happy with that. But for whatever reason, it seemed like all past animosity was forgiven when he texted me.

And I suppose if Blevins gets Sheridan to sign some contract from a hospital bed, and Blevins shows me that and it looks like it wasn't forged, I'll assume that represents Sheridan's wishes.

I'm really curious if it's possible to retrieve Sheridan's 2001 copyright filing. The document or electronic. Or whether that doesn't exist any more.

Fascinating to be accused of copyright infringement, when no one seems to be able to produce the document I'm allegedly infringing.

All adult criminal defendants are entitled to a SPEEDY jury trial. Defense lawyers routinely waive their clients right to a speedy trial. If they did not, the court system would clog up so fast it would make your head spin. So Snow could just refuse to waive time which is what it is called. I would advise Snow to enter an explicit demand for a speedy trial at his arraignment. That is not really necessary but it would show the judge that he has a wild man defendant who is not going to go with the local customary protocol. Likely outcome? Dismissal. Case is such small potatoes. The case cannot be brought in state court. Has to be fed court on criminal copyright charges. Fed courts are jammed with deadly serious cases. Snow cannot be compelled to testify. Putting together a successful prosecution would consume a lot of time and resources. How do you prove beyond a reasonable doubt who Snowmman is? It can be done but is time consuming. Internet sites routinely oppose demands to identify users in non terrorism cases. It takes time to compel compliance. Meanwhile the speedy trial clock is ticking.

Intent is relevant in any criminal case. Would a jury infer criminal intent in Snows acts? Highly doubtful. All proceeds are paid directly to Sheridan. Sheridans entreaty for publication and distribution would also be considered by a jury.

None of this is likely to happen. The federal courts and prosecutors have no time for penny ante criminal IP cases. They would say go pursue a civil case.

I am surprised Sheridan would even think about having Snow jailed as Blevins reports. I think he is probably being coached into a rage, although Sheridan is never far from raging.

Blevins says that he can block Snows attempts to publish on Lulu. If he does, all that is left is three paperbacks. Hardly worth a fuss.

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[snowmman]

I just reviewed the pdf document I purchased from Sheridan in 2008

There is no copyright notice or statement about "All rights reserved" in that pdf that I can find.

So I'm assuming that my purchase gave me the rights to do whatever I wanted with the contents in the pdf.
Sheridan has never advised me that the pdf usage was restricted in some way, when I bought it for $25 from him.

Now Blevins is apparently claiming, that this pdf I purchased in 2008, is derivative to the 2001 document Sheridan filed copyright on, and Sheridan is asserting rights through Blevins.

I have no idea what is real in all this. If Blevins produces the document, I guess we'll know.

So I think it's valid to claim that I don't believe I'm violating any copyright.
All these claims about copyright infringment, seem baseless to me...i.e. they are based on premises that haven't been proven in any way.

p.s. I can prove that Sheridan made the pdf available for sale to the general public in 2008, using information at Lulu. So my claim that there were no restrictions on the use of the material, given the exchange of money for it, can be proven true.

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What proof of anything has Robert shown?

[snowmman]

Okay, so apparently Blevins wants to engage me using the DMCA process thru Lulu.

Luckily there is a process...just like Trump can't summarily ban people from press conferences without due process.
I've attached an infographic that outlines the process Blevins and I will apparently engage in, with Lulu as an uninterested bystander.
The steps and actions and results seem clear-cut.

Blevins has said his preference is to use DMCA to attack me, at least at first. I think I'll prevail.

Fair-use is an interesting concept that hasn't been challenged in the DBC Vortex yet. Which is amazing when people do things like go on TV and freely accuse living people of being criminals, or people like Grey write books and make money that piggy back off of all sorts of regular people's lives..without asking permission.

Sheridan willingly inserted himself into the DBC vortex, with his Parachutist article, his various postings alluding to him being suspected of being DBC, his History Channel appearance.

Grey himself used something I wrote and put it in his book. Presumably he used my writing to make money for himself.
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Snowmman is an internet persona that I created. I own all the rights to, and I will assert those rights against all enemies of the state. For instance, Blevins. Now that may all be bullshit. But the DBC Vortex is all about bullshit, so I'm acting appropriately.

Bring it on, Blevins. You are weak. I'm not.
Unleash the dogs of war.

[snowmman]

The only thing Blevins has shown, is that Sheridan filed a Copyright with the US Copyright Office in 2001
It has the same title as the book I am publishing.
That's all that's known.
None of the contents of that book has been shown. (I'm assuming it's a book, because it has a lot of pages)

It has a radically larger number of "pages" so it's unclear why Blevins thinks the thing I'm publishing is derivative of that work.

I included that copyright notice in my publication, to protect Sheridan's rights just in case the work is derivative.

If it is, I still believe I was not restricted in republication when I purchased the pdf from Sheridan in 2008.
Especially if I'm steering all profit to Sheridan and the book is not available anywhere in the world today.

What proof of anything has Robert shown?

[snowmman]

Blevins has accused me of theft.
Does he honestly believe I somehow stole a document from Sheridan?

The document I have was purchased from Sheridan, and there are records to prove it.

All this claim about "theft" is really about claiming I don't have the rights to republish.

"Theft" sounds nice and simple, but no theft happened.

The actual purchase happened without me ever physically meeting Sheridan, and I have never met him in person.
Sheridan has communicated with me a number of times over the years. Sheridan knew I had purchased his pdf (witness his arrival on DZ.com back in the day talking about it)

Never has Sheridan said I don't have the right to use the pdf for whatever I desire to do with it.

He has had plenty of opportunity to do just that.

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DMCA is a waste of $100. all you do is counter and he has 10 days to file a legal suit or the complaint is dismissed. this is typically used to take down videos. I went through the process before. he doesn't have the right to even use the DMCA from what I can see.