Judge spikes 'dumbest literary agent' Wikipedia suit

she just could be

any1 who can be assed and afford a court case would normally go for the full britani box set

Are the books bad?

I have never read one of her books so are they really that bad?

A Clever but InSane Ruling is just too SMART to be True...... and a Cop Out*

"You can question the sanity of other American judges, but Judge Perri is among the more level headed. He's well aware of the protections laid down by Section 230. "Wikipedia is a provider and user of an 'interactive computer service' and is therefore immune from all claims asserted against it," reads his ruling."

I would certainly then question Judge Perri's sanity if he were to persist with that as a Simple Ruling....... and thus is the implication that certified Insane would be more appropriate unless there is any other Class which would Suit.

* An Interesting Reward Structure for the Intellectually Challenged Toying with Untouchables and Preying on Untouchability.

Re: Are the books bad?

A literary agent is *supposed* to match up a book with a publisher in exchange for a percentage of the royalties. Since far more books are written than can be published, the success rate for authors is fairly low and a lot of people become desperate for a taste of success. So there's a whole subculture of scammer agents who instead take the author's money up front and either never find a publisher for the book, or send it to a vanity press that demands yet more money from the author. This leads to a lot of bad writers being bilked for the privilege of being told their unpublishable works are masterpieces, and some good books being condemned to vanity publishing limbo where they won't be distributed properly, will find hardly any readers, and will not earn the money their authors deserve to get.

Barbara Bauer is one of the most notorious scam agents in the business, partly due to her habit of sending legal threats to anyone who criticises her. See here:

http://www.sfwa.org/Beware/twentyworst.html

http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14895

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007440.html

Its a wiki story

Someone sues someone about stuff on the internet - no story

From some reading of other news articles, she sued more than just the wackypedia about internet criticism - the nature of the complaints seem to be that her charges for getting authors published were excessive for the (quality of?) the services she supplied - blogs and others.

The story is the doublethink that a WPian tried to avoid the allegations being repeated on the 'pedia but at the same time denied that he was trying to do so it and that the content on WP was in anyway patrolled or controllable.

AC cos I hack about on the disputed site myself for fun

Put Clair Raynor in charge.

Then wikipedia might have something useful for all those immature people to read...

@IMO...

"[...]Someone must be accountable at all times."

Says the Anonymous Coward..

Separately, anyone noticed comment standards drop a lot in last 2 days? I've been away, I come back and everyone seems to have been partially amanfromMarsified..

Alleged 'dumbest literary agent'

Perhaps that person is the dumbest literary agent, it could well be the case that they are the dumbest literary agent, there is a chance they are the dumbest literary agent.

Yup most of those may get around various laws, and if you perhaps want to start some vendetta campaign, you could publish everything with a may about a person, group or company, perhaps unleashing the dogs of war, but of course I couldn't comment.

I think old manfrommars ai bot thing, may be recording all the comments, a fetishism for : http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/archivist.htm perhaps :)