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Apple Sics Lawyers on Something Awful

• Apple is using the old argument that its critics may not show a picture of its faulty manufacturing because the picture itself is its intellectual property! I'm no lawyer, but I don't think this argument holds any water. The Supreme Court held in "Folsom V Marsh" that "reviewer may fairly cite largely from the original work, if his design be really and truly to use the passages for the purposes of fair and reasonable criticism." That was in defense of a man who had literally copied 352 full pages of another work in order to point out its flaws.
• Yeah, God forbid that Apple should actually apologize and fix the problem instead of suing the guys who found it!
• Here's the original article in question.