Comments on: Crazy copyright bot threatens those who tweet tiny poem

By: Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:05:00 +0000

^o^ easy to get hold of

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:33:00 +0000

‘Poorly executed blog’
Have you seen your companies web presence?
It is a shame that you can’t seem to remember what town your located in unless of course I am missing some detail that some towns are more preferable than others in that area.
Maybe we should just serve your registered agent at S&S and put and end to this…

By: Tim Cushing

Tim Cushing — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:33:00 +0000

No need to go out of your way, M_E. Ken has already offered his assistance.

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/302123065557520386

By: Mutation_Engine

Mutation_Engine — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:56:00 +0000

Oddly enough i would usually expect a publisher to be capable of using proper spelling and punctuation. Of course i may be thinking of more traditional publishers that have higher standards of proofreading and literacy since printing an actual book in advance represents a significant investment of their own funds. i’m going to go out on a limb and guess that OnPress being a print on demand publisher means they consider themselves a vanity press where actual literacy and editorial standards are utterly irrelevant.
So there’s that.
And like many flyspeck companies they apparently can’t afford a real lawyer and have to write up their own incoherent and laughable legal threats. i’m almost tempted to mention OnPress to Ken & company at Popehat. OnPress’ twitter-spamming trollbot aspect might be of interest to that lot.

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Awww, that’s super.

By: NelC

NelC — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:24:00 +0000

But bardfinn and I published first. ;)

By: onpress17

onpress17 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:07:00 +0000

This On Press Inc. Shaun Shane’s Publisher. We would really like to see if you’ll come out from hiding behind this cowardly shield of words, on some poorly excuted blog that list no way of getting a hold of you and give us some real world contact information. For surely, if you presume you are right then there can be no harm in having us settle this in court. Or perhaps your just a wanna be revolutionary that does nothing more than talk hiding behind some silly childish ranting on a webpage. Or are you really up ” to putting your money where your mouth is “ as they say. So give us some contact information and stop being so cowardly. On Press Inc.

By: theaardvark

theaardvark — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:01:00 +0000

In a complete turnaround, it seems a new account is now thanking people for tweeting the poem.
innmonpressn: @theaardvark Thanks again.Your tweeting of Shane’s work brings it to a larger audience and so increases his book sales. Thanks!
from web in reply to theaardvark

innmonpressn: @theaardvark Thanks for tweeting Tongues Made of Glass by Shaun Shane http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/04-tongues-made-of-glass/ This is Shane’s Publisher. On Press Inc

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:34:00 +0000

Oooh I got to say it over on TD and now I get to say it here about the guy behind this stupidity…
Christ what an asshole.

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:32:00 +0000

Over at Techdirt Tim had a long list of accounts they were using…

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:32:00 +0000

OHAI TIM!

By: Frank Lee Scarlett

Frank Lee Scarlett — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:44:00 +0000

Wasn’t Orly Taitz a lawyer before she was a dentist? Or is perhaps she’s a lawyer/dentist? Or starred as a child-prodigy lawyer/dentist?

At any rate, she’s multi-talented and seems to have plenty of time…

By: agonist

agonist — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:42:00 +0000

I wonder if tiny changes like changing “we would” to “we’d” or reordering “If only our tongues were” to “If our tongues were only” if the bot would find it.

By: OldBrownSquirrel

OldBrownSquirrel — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:42:00 +0000

If only our Twitter bots were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we troll.

By: Cormacolinde

Cormacolinde — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:40:00 +0000

Note the Invisible Children is the weird christian organization that was behind Koney 2012.

By: carlogesualdodivenosa

carlogesualdodivenosa — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:05:00 +0000

John Keats
John Keats
John
Please put your scarf on.

(Just seeing if the Salinger Estate lawyers are still in the office.)

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:48:00 +0000

How little of the poem, and which part brings the hellfire from the bot?
Our tongues were made of glass – is that enough?

By: BookGuy

BookGuy — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:47:00 +0000

I love how it just keeps hectoring you. This is what happens when a bot mates with the Overly Attached Girlfriend meme and has a baby.

By: legsmalone

legsmalone — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:21:00 +0000

I’m going to tweet this without attribution.

By: Dr. Chronobiologist

Dr. Chronobiologist — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:07:00 +0000

A poem so small, I tweeted it all.

If only our copyrights were made of glass, how much more careful poets would be when they write.

By: andygates

andygates — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:59:00 +0000

Weird thing is, though, a tweet-length poem is only really going to get exposure if it’s tweeted.

By: andygates

andygates — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:58:00 +0000

Hey, I just made that up independently. Imma sue you!

By: nickgb

nickgb — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:53:00 +0000

Just to be clear, the one example cited in your link of what could be a protectable tweet is … a tweet-length poem.

The real question is damages, of course, and thanks to statutory damages that’s a real question.

By: Tim Cushing

Tim Cushing — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:33:00 +0000

I doubt it. It seems like he’d rather not talk about it at all. I was threatened with a lawsuit for “copyright infringement, defamation of character and making false claims” several days before this article was posted. (He had a problem with my faux review of his book over at Amazon.)

http://www.amazon.com/review/RVOPTWIHQE9NH/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1467522619&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=283155&store=books

By: Lee Pierce

Lee Pierce — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:30:00 +0000

The account @saewiaonpress is now suspended. I guess that baby troll got washed out from under the bridge.

By: Matt L

Matt L — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:25:00 +0000

Maybe this is all a brilliant ploy by Shaune Shane to put the Streisand Effect to a positive use. After all, who had ever heard of him before this BoingBoing post? And what are the odds he ever would have been mentioned here, if not for this?

Assuming that all publicity really IS good publicity, that is.

By: social_maladroit

social_maladroit — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:15:00 +0000

Once I made a tweet, and it seemed a gas
Soon turned out
Had a tongue of glass
Seemed like the real thing
Only to find
OnPress Inc
Left a bot behind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGU_4-5RaxU

By: iamlegion

iamlegion — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:12:00 +0000

The fact that the bot says things like “…or they are libel.” is the tip-off that no lawyer came within a country mile of this brilliant marketing idea…

By: NelC

NelC — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:06:00 +0000

“…how much more careful we would be when we tweet.”

…oh, yeah, so it is.

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:06:00 +0000

Awwww!