![]() Yes, all this fuss boiling down to whether or not he could take a picture of the money before donating it. Inman said in a separate sworn statement that, “in order to avoid having this lawsuit interfere with my expression and to avoid jeopardizing the funds from the campaign in any way, I withdrew funds from my own personal account and photographed those funds.” IndieGoGo distributed the funds directly to the two charities. In a nutshell, Inman decided to have the funds transferred directly to the charities in question, rather than withdrawing the money and taking a picture with it before donating and Carreon seized on that as close enough to what he filed to claim victory. “Mission Accomplished,” Carreon announced on the phone with Ars. “We’re very pleased that Carreon has seen that his lawsuit had no merit, and hope that this is the end of his abuse of the legal system.”Īnd then over at Ars Technica, Carreon is declaring victory:īut while it may look like Carreon has come to his senses, Ars called Carreon to comment and found him declaring the lawsuit a success. “Inman sparked a flood of charity donations, and yet Carreon still tried to punish him for making fun of his baseless legal threats by dragging him through the court system,” said EFF Intellectual Property Director Corynne McSherry. The fundraiser’s goal was $20,000, to match Carreon’s demand, but the final total was over $200,000. Furthermore, instead of paying Carreon’s baseless demand for $20,000, Inman decided instead to start a fundraising campaign called Operation BearLove Good, Cancer Bad through the Indiegogo fundraising platform to benefit the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation. Inman publicly annotated the cease and desist letter with a scathing critique of its facts and logic and posted it on The Oatmeal. A year later, Carreon – the attorney for FunnyJunk – served Inman with a letter claiming the post was defamatory and demanding The Oatmeal pay $20,000 and agree to never speak the words Funny Junk again. The extraordinarily public dispute between Inman and Carreon started in 2011, when Inman published a blog post condemning the website FunnyJunk for posting hundreds of his comics without crediting or linking back to The Oatmeal. We called him out on this in our briefs, so it’s no surprise that Carreon was left with no choice but to dismiss.” ![]() ![]() “This was nothing more than a meritless attempt to punish Inman for calling attention to his legal bullying. “Matthew Inman spoke out against Carreon’s threat of a frivolous lawsuit, in a very popular and very public way,” said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl. While Carreon’s lawsuit was purportedly about whether Inman’s online fundraising campaign for the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation complies with California regulations, it was really a classic SLAPP – a strategic lawsuit against public participation. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and co-counsel Venkat Balasubramani represented Inman in the case. ![]() San Francisco – Attorney Charles Carreon dropped his bizarre lawsuit against The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman today, ending his strange legal campaign against Inman’s humorous and creative public criticism of a frivolous cease and desist letter that Carreon wrote on behalf of his client Funny Junk. ![]()
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