Scientology writes root!

I was notified today that Helena "Mizz Probert" Kobrin has written my system administrators complaining about an alleged copyright violation. She alleges that I violated the copyright on OT-VII documents when I followed-up to Martin Poulter's post. I believe, and I'm sure any sane person would agree with me, that the 8 or 10 lines of text quoted from OT-VII clearly fell within Fair Use guidelines.

As of yet they have not done anything, except notify me. But apparently they're mulling it over.

I'm not sure what there is to mull over. I don't have any copyrighted materials and the posting was within fair use guideline. But as soon as Kobrin wrote me, I sent a cancel message and promised not to do it again.

My experience with Universities and Free Speech is that they generally don't protect it. (I was at the University of Pennsylvania and an editor at the independent student newspaper when a bunch of angry students stole 14,000 copies in an effort to silence a columnist. Penn didn't do anything to protect free speech then.)

I'm hoping the people here at Thomas Jefferson's University are a little more willing to protect free speech.

To my mind their reply to Helena "Mizz Probert" Kobrin should be short and sweet: "Shove this complaint up your a**!"