Now that’s cold. Strikes me as rather bigoted toward switch-hitters, too. Maybe Sir/Madam would be more cosmopolitan and inclusive.

Har.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

We won’t know what we are getting until it is too late.

Somehow though I have an idea she won’t be another Roberts.

With regard to your letter dated May 14, 2010, I respectfully decline.

Now go get your friggin’ shine box!

All the best,

Eric Olsen

the cat’s outta the bag.
Probably everyone on this site has it saved and ready to spread nationwide via email.

It worked for the Pentagon Papers, right?

Fine, just excerpt the thing on a few different blogs, and you are done. That is ‘fair use’, and legal under copyright law.

Additionally, it is out there now. There probably are copies NOT from the Princeton Archive.

This whole thing is a joke. If they are really worried about things as stupid as her college thesis, there must be some real skeletons in her closet.

http://neoavatara.com/blog/?p=10909

they might try but they CANNOT come after MILLIONS of US! I guess they don’t want everyone to know she is a Socialist!

and ask if someone had posted the letter on a website that wanted people to read how “great” she is, if he would have reacted the same way.

… “rule of law” stuff, isn’t it?

for princeton Comrade Linke? To go to your communist collage?

Yahoo search his name

I missed it… I would have enjoyed the opportunity to read her thesis. Too bad Princeton is sequestering it.

What to do… what to do…

ts.atomic
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tsDOTatomicATgmailDOTcom

so we can find out what’s in it.

I’m tired of your lips being attached to my rectum. I request that you remove them immediately before further action is taken.

Please notify me as soon as possible that you have removed your lips from my rectum.

Sincerely yours,
John Q Public

I should be judged on what I promise to do in the future, not my felonious past! hehe

here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/31383626

After all, they’re an endangered species, particularly when they run the largest and most important universities in the country and are employed for life.

It couldn’t be more difficult for them, Erick, really. They’re suffering.

And more importantly, the public’s right to know what Elena Kagan wrote her thesis on and whose side she came down on while barely avoiding blubbering over herself: “I AM A SOCIALIST! PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE ME IMPORTANT!” is less important than maintaining Princeton’s right to protect their Socialist faculty.

You dummy, Erick. You thought that people at Princeton might actually be PROUD to see Elena Kagan’s dissertation spread all over the web, from hither to yon.

They only will be proud once it’s irreversible and nobody can disagree with it.

Then — and only then — will the Socialists be publicly proud of their own.

Of course I would never take something as dangerously illegal as a copy of somebody’s thesis from 1981, but if I had, and I read parts of it, I would be seriously disappointed in her completely facile ideas and support for those ideas. Her writing, [I am just letting the cosmos flow her sentences through me] is Pollyannaish with a plaintive whine throughout about the sadness in her soul that socialism didn’t happen here, as of then. It seems to be her central thesis is that socialists must put aside their differences and work toward truly collective ends. They mustn’t allow the evil people who believe in freedom to divide and conquer.
Well, she should be quite pleased with this group of nutbags. They are certainly holding together. Elena, pull down your dress, your collectivism is showing.

Of course I would never take something as dangerously illegal as a copy of somebody’s thesis from 1981, but if I had, and I read parts of it, I would be seriously disappointed in her completely facile ideas and support for those ideas. Her writing, [I am just letting the cosmos flow her sentences through me] is Pollyannaish with a plaintive whine throughout about the sadness in her soul that socialism didn’t happen here, as of then. It seems to be her central thesis is that socialists must put aside their differences and work toward truly collective ends. They mustn’t allow the evil people who believe in freedom to divide and conquer.
Well, she should be quite pleased with this group of nutbags. They are certainly holding together. Elena, pull down your dress, your collectivism is showing.

Bob McDonnell’s thesis which was used by the Washington Post and other publications to trash him is fair play, but kagan’s is not?

Whats good for the goose……..

Is there a conservative mole at Princeton? Hmmmm….

Elena Kagan is a rather handsome woman, I’d say.

So is everyone else here. WE’RE ALL individuals.

Probably, anyway. ::shifty eyes::

as all publicity is good publicity. Let them push it into court and at the last moment remove it. Easy way to get her views known by all and it will let many see how this school goes out of its way to protect not only her BS beliefs, but their allowance of these views in an American school.

that PDF file in my downloads folder? Dang, I wanted some great bathroom reading! Guess I’ll just have to pass along to all my contacts and get it OUT of my computer!

We believe in property rights, unless it’s property we want.

I’m sure that copyright notice on page two was intended as more of a guideline than a hard-and-fast rule.

if anyone cares to litigate them. I believe an argument could be made that with her nomination to SCOTUS, the “educational” value of her thesis is an overriding public interest. If it had been posted in full anywhere else first, it gets difficult to claim infringement.

There is also the issue of value. Copyright is a property right. The loss by infringement can hardly be more than the total royalties it has earned for the archive to date. How much is that? My bet is . . . ZERO.

If the copyright is worth no valuable consideration, who gives a rat’s patootie?

Maybe you got targeted by some stupid spambot lawyer, but this is about a clear case of a fair use as I can imagine.

You have made available a copyrighted work for the express purpose of political discourse and analysis, and you are doing so for free. If you want, I’m sure EFF or ChillingEffects would help you out here.

to links on Drudge and Townhall and all my email addresses.

That should keep it circulating like a cat’s tail.

And as to copyright–I taught journalism for 14 years–the mere posting of a work can be a copyright violation, especially if used for some kind of monetary gain or claiming the work as one’s own.

Biblical Archeological Review’s editor, Hershell Shanks, published a translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls in order to break the intellectual strangle hold the original study committee had on the historical materials. He credited the author but was sued and lost. On the other hand, now all scholars so interested have better access to valuable mss. previously denied for decades.

Kagan and little o fall into that abyss of “experts” and “intellectuals” who never published anything and have tried to lock away anything that pertains to their professional and academic careers. Odd in and of itself. But, worse, I think Kaga’s appointment is just a quid pro quo for her sealing o’s Harvard documents.

And why can’t someone access them. regardless? We had Joe the Plumber’s DMV records in 24 hours of his speaking to the precious one in 2008. o’s paper trail is some place and o’s needs to be revealed to the entire world.

Second solution: fair use – it’s being used as commentary on political speech of the highest order.

Third solution: expose the hypocrisy of an academic institution trying to stifle debate on one of the most important political issues our country ever faces – the lifetime appointment of one the nine most powerful people in our nation.

Too bad there’s a profanity filter; Princeton’s earned some abuse for this move.

…don’t forget to ask them for the copyright registration. I’ll bet there isn’t one.

http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/news/kagan.pdf

For those interested in legally obtaining a copy of the Kagan senior thesis, you can follow the instructions on the website above. As part of the process, you agree to adhere to U.S. Copyright Law and not distribute the document electronically. This is the same policy used for all Princetonians who have served in public life, both Democrats and Republicans, including people like Donald Rumsfeld and James Baker.

Daniel J. Linke
Princeton University Archivist

Comrade Linke I’m very disappointed with you. What about all the underprivileged websites the don’t have the same chance as all the big powerful websites like Princeton. What about spreading the wealth, in this case the pda? Is this fair to you? Do you think that copyrights are only for Princeton? A true socialist would have no use for copyrights because it takes away from the equality of all the people or websites in this case. So if you believe and teach socialism and do not follow socialism what kind of message is that? Like I said comrade, I’m very disappointed with you.

How long will you make us ride at the back of the bus comrade?

http://support.scribd.com/entries/23029-what-is-fair-use

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pictures/g-k/kagan_elena/

It’s a bluff. They are not the copyright holders. They have no right to demand that you take the thesis down.

This letter deserves no reply. If they are serious about taking you on, they will send a DMCA takedown letter where they swear under oath that they are either the copyright holder, or are acting on behalf of the copyright holder.

This letter is an act of pure political intimidation.

The Kagan Thesis has gone viral, and it’s forever part of the public domain. As of this posting, a quick Google search of “Kagan Thesis” returns approximately 335,000 hits.

Besides, you and your handlers have more to fear from Princeton’s alumni and your own campus publication, The Daily Princetonian, than Kagan’s senior thesis becoming part of the public domain.

Fear and loathing in Brooklyn is just one example, and it’s even more damning.

if you were to read aloud your already-purchased-for-$57 copy of the thesis and then post the audio of you reading it aloud. You should find out, see if that’s still infringement. While you’re at it, you should read aloud Michelle Obama’s Princeton thesis too. Equally disturbing.

want third parties to publish the complete text of Ms. Kagan’s thesis…

It’s not about hiding, dumb bunnies.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100517/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2087

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/05/kagan-theses-to-be-available-o.html