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  1. Rich Casamento
    February 10, 2015 @ 11:46 am

    HI Matt,

    We spoke a year ago about a Getty Troll and you helped me. I just wanted to reach out with my support for what you are involved in here.

    Watching how the Ellis attorney’s twist the blog discussion into harassment with mischaracterization and ridiculous analogies just makes me mad. This lady set up a revenue stream around a childish sentimental poem, sadly embraced by the illiterate masses, then engaged in an angry trolling campaign. I so hope you win.

    She’s right about one thing. It is about what you do in the “dash”. And what she’s doing is changing her dash into a big middle finger…

    Good luck,
    Rich

    • Matthew Valor
      February 10, 2015 @ 5:36 pm

      Hello Rich,

      I appreciate you reaching out and posting your support. As far as I am concerned, I have already “won” in that my life is not governed by the protective order and that I have an enormous amount of support from First Amendment advocates. They know the difference between free speech and “true threats”. This legal battle is mostly a battle out of principle and outrage. No way I could have done so well without my supporters.

      Copyright extortionists thrive in the darkness and depend on their victim’s being legally ignorant. They dislike people like me who speak out vocally, “rudely”, and “uncivilly”. I have always known that non-lawyers had a lot more power than they gave credit for which is why I always took ELI to edgier places. Remember, the First Amendment would not be necessary if we were all required to be polite, civil, agreeable, and politically correct. It allows us to be vocal, rude, and confrontational towards injustices we see in this country.

      You should realize that while the Dash Poet may headline the lawsuit, there were other people behind the scenes plotting with her to shut me up and ELI down. One of those people was Timothy B. McCormack who is a Getty Images lawyer. Some in upper management of Getty Images have secretly worked with McCormack (through signed letters and documents we attained) to take down myself and Oscar Michelen.

      What the public sees is only a portion of the animosity copyright extortionists have towards me, Oscar Michelen, and ELI Support Team. The legal battle against the Dash Poet is one piece of the bigger puzzle. So far, I am happy where we are at. I am only one of many. I just happen to be the most obnoxious one and I get a lot of the credit (blame).

      Keep checking back. There are more stories yet to tell.

      • Michael lake
        March 5, 2015 @ 11:05 am

        Mathew,

        Even if you win, you will have won in Georgia. The copyright trolls will try to seek to restricting you from other jurisdictions. They may seek ex parte orders out against you from other states even beyond what the long arm statutes allows. You may have won the battle, but you haven’t won the war. A lot of the state courts are receiving VAWA funding and training, which is not a legal education but more the federal government coaching judges to support bench trial verdicts in favor of alleged victims. You probably have seen by now that the family court systems don’t care about the rules of equity, or the first amendment, or due process; it is the home for activist, or judges who don’t want to practice the law. Until someone with standing can force the illegal injunctions to be scrutinized before the federal court, preferably the US supreme court, chiseling away the statutes one state at a time will not be sufficient. By Law, jurisdiction in Georgia is your county, but there are plenty of family court cases where the trial courts are acting without jurisdiction even when being told they had no jurisdiction. Odds are likely that she will try to use the one in Cobb judiciary, which is full of federal criminal offenses conducted by their retired senior judges. Winning will likely require tons of appeals, both discretionary and interlocutory, and you may also have to invoke criminal statutes 18 USC 241/2 against the judges.
        I have in my federal case (lake v ray et al) filed a response to summary judgment including a restraining order with memorandum, so maybe that will be some help in defending freedom.

  2. Rodman
    April 1, 2015 @ 3:42 pm

    Grads on your win for this appeal I knew they would make the right decision in this case. I have been waiting for months to see this!

    http://www.gasupreme.us/sc-op/pdf/s14a1652.pdf