The Strange Case Of Lance Dutson

A Maine-based blogger has been sued for copyright infringement, defamation, and libel for posting complaints about a Maine tourism campaign. How far does free speech go online? Dutson's role as defendant in a case brought by the creator of a tourism ad campaign for the state of Maine, Warren Kremer Paino, may determine that. Dutson has been a critic of the state government and of the contractors Maine brought in to do this work. Dutson Scott Karp for pointing to it.) The firm claims copyright infringement has been committed. It probably did not help that the sample phone number on the ad just happens to connect to the kind of phone service a lonely person might call out of sexual desperation. Or that Dutson made note of that. Predictably, fallout online has begun to take form. TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington suggested he may skip the event as well, but Dutson urged him via a comment in Scoble's blog to attend anyway. John Palfrey from the Berkman Center at Harvard Law Now comes the kicker. Dutson Media Bloggers Association, has picked up legal representation through that organization. "This case is nothing more than an attempt by a deep-pocketed litigant to bully a blogger for criticizing state officials and state contractors"", said MBA President Robert Cox in a Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web |