Subject: OC Register Subpoenas AOL Over Critical Website From: web-post@planetarynews.com Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 07:54:30 -0600

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Astonishing news about my former employer, the Orange County Register.
This from the LA Times:

         Obeying Court Order, AOL Reveals Subscriber's Name; 
         Internet: Orange County Register sought identity of employee whose Web
         site was critical of newspaper.; 

         Saturday, July 18, 1998 
         Home Edition 
         Section: Business 
         Byline: P.J. HUFFSTUTTER 
         TIMES STAFF WRITER 
         In an unusual case involving free speech and employee rights on the 
         Internet, the Orange County Register obtained from America Online 
         the name of an employee of the newspaper who operated a Web site 
         that was critical of the Santa Ana publication. 

Apparently, someone called slave4OCR@aol.com was running a Web site
(http://members.aol.com/slave4ocr/) that was a bit harsh for my former 
(Libertarian!) masters. Their lawsuit is based on copyright infringement.


The Times writes: 

   "I have never heard of a case like this," said Mike Godwin, author of
"Cyber Rights" and a lawyer for civil liberties group Electronic Frontier
Foundation. "It's a sad, sad day when a newspaper, with a building filled
with reporters, sues someone on the opposite side of the country in order
to get information about one of its own employees."

Chilling.

Dan Froomkin
(Happily working at washingtonpost.com)
froomkin@ziplink.net



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