The PDF files of ActiveRain’s complaint against Move, Inc., and Move’s response, both attested to be linked from ActiveRain, are no longer there. (See comment below from Jonathan Washburn; the disappearance was apparently inadvertent.)
I am fairly reliably paranoid about crap like this, so I took copies of the two files while they were still available.
Here is ActiveRain’s petition of complaint.
And here is Move, Inc.’s response to that petition.
As someone pointed out the other day, these documents are public records in the State of California, available for inspection by anyone in the jurisdiction where they were filed.
On the other hand, these particular scanned PDF representations of those documents are presumably the work product of ActiveRain.
Whether the added labor of scanning the documents and rendering them as PDF files grants ActiveRain (or anyone) copyright protection is a colorable argument.
However: I will happily remove them upon receipt of a Cease and Desist Order from either party’s attorneys, replacing the documents with a scanned copy of that Cease and Desist Order.
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Sock Puppet says:
Snapped. Well done.
-Athol
September 29, 2007 — 3:16 pm
Brian Brady says:
I snagged the smoking gun, also. Thanks for making it available
September 29, 2007 — 3:42 pm
CJ, Broker in NELA, CA says:
Old fogey that I am, I had ~printed~ both documents for leisurely reading.
September 29, 2007 — 4:32 pm
Jonathan Washburn says:
The documents were not taken down intentionally. If they were taken down intentionally you can reasonably assume we would have also taken down the links to the documents. Not just left them live and broken. I just learned of the broken links a few minutes ago. I think they broke last night during a site upgrade. We are working to make them live again.
September 29, 2007 — 4:45 pm
Jonathan Washburn says:
The links are fixed.
September 30, 2007 — 2:03 pm