Trump vs Bob Woodward. Lawsuit over famed journo/author's use of recorded interviews (Page 1/2)
rinselberg JAN 31, 11:36 AM
"Trump sues Bob Woodward for releasing audio of their interviews"

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Former President Donald Trump has sued journalist Bob Woodward for copyright violations, claiming Woodward released audio from their interviews without Trump’s consent.

The former president has a long history of filing lawsuits that ultimately get tossed out of court. Woodward and the publisher Simon & Schuster said Trump’s case is without merit.

Woodward conducted several interviews with Trump for “Rage,” the author’s second book on the former president that hit bookstores in September 2020. Woodward later released “The Trump Tapes,” an audiobook featuring eight hours of raw interviews with Trump interspersed with the author’s commentary. That book, which went on sale October 25, 2022, contains the 20 interviews Woodward conducted with Trump from 2016 through 2020, including those for “Rage.”

But Trump, in the lawsuit filed Monday in the Northern District of Florida, claims he did not give Woodward permission to release the audio of the interviews.

“President Trump told Woodward numerous times that the Interviews were to be used by Woodward – and Woodward only – for the sole purpose of accurately quoting President Trump for the ‘written word,’ i.e., ‘Rage,’ and not for any other purpose, including providing, marketing, or selling the Interviews to the public, press, or the media, in any way, shape, or form,” the lawsuit states.

Trump, who also sued Simon & Schuster and parent company Paramount, is seeking nearly $50 million in damages. The lawsuit claims the audio was “protected material, subject to various limitations on use and distribution.”


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“Former President Trump’s lawsuit is without merit and we will aggressively defend against it,” Woodward and Simon & Schuster said in a joint statement on Tuesday. “All these interviews were on the record and recorded with President Trump’s knowledge and agreement.”


I have not duplicated the entire article. More than half of it, though.

David Goldman for CNN; January 31, 2023.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01...-woodward/index.html

And of equal concern to many across the nation, scientists at Colossal Biosciences (a startup) are planning a project to use DNA technology and genetic engineering to resurrect the Dodo, the legendary flightless bird that is inexorably linked with the modern concept of "extinction".

"Scientists plot the resurrection of a bird that’s been extinct since the 17th century"
Katie Hunt for CNN; January 31, 2023.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01...ossal-scn/index.html

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cliffw FEB 01, 09:11 AM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:
... use DNA technology and genetic engineering to resurrect the Dodo ...



The Dodo never did become extinct. Look around. You are surrounded by them>

Isn't extinction a part of evolution ?
rinselberg FEB 01, 03:56 PM
I have more that's worthy of review, in both of these stories that are inexorably linked (for obvious reasons) in my mind, if not yours.

First, on the idea of using biogenetic "wizardry" to resurrect the Dodo as a "born again" living species:

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Whether or not Colossal and its team of scientists are ultimately successful in their quest to bring back the dodo and other extinct creatures, de-extinction projects, and the technological breakthroughs they may generate, have investors excited. Colossal also announced Tuesday that it has raised an additional $150 million, bringing the total amount of funding raised since the company launched in 2021 to $225 million.

Critics, however, say the vast sums involved could be better put to use protecting the 400 or so bird species, and many other animals and plants, that are listed as endangered.

“There’s so many things that desperately need our help. And money. Why would you even bother trying to save something long gone, when there’s so many things that are desperate right now?” said Julian Hume, an avian paleontologist at London’s Natural History Museum, who studies the dodo.


That's from the same CNN report that I posted here yesterday.

Second, on the matter of Trump v Woodward, "Above The Law" features a somewhat longish but very colorfully written report from the always estimable Liz Dye.

"Trump Alleges Conspiracy To 'Collate And Cobble' By Bob Woodward And Publisher Simon & Schuster"

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Well, it's not the dumbest lawsuit he's ever filed ...


Liz Dye for Above The Law; January 31, 2023.
https://abovethelaw.com/202...sher-simon-schuster/

Here's how that one begins:

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Fresh off getting slapped with a million dollars in sanctions for filing garbage civil tort suits, Donald Trump, the OG vexatious litigant, is back for another round. This time, he’s taking a run at reporter Bob Woodward, as well as his publisher Simon & Schuster, and S&S’s parent company Paramount, demanding $50 million from the publication of recorded interviews the reporter conducted between December of 2019 and August of 2020. Naturally the case was filed in the Northern District of Florida, where none of the parties reside.

Woodward published “Rage,” a book based on the interviews in 2020. But in 2022, he packaged the recordings of the interviews in “The Trump Tapes.” Or, as Trump’s lawyers put it:

"Specifically, SSI and Woodward conspired to, and did, collate and cobble together more than eight hours of 'raw' interviews with President Trump. Without President Trump’s permission, on October 25, 2022, Defendants released the recordings as an audiobook dubbed The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump ('Audiobook').

It’s a conspiracy to collate and cobble!
cliffw FEB 02, 05:44 AM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:
... to resurrect the Dodo as a "born again" living species ...
Liz Dye for Above The Law; January 31, 2023.



I thought you was an evolution believer ?

Can you believe it ? You believe that fish came out of the ocean and evolved.

I always wondered why does it not work today. I guess that mankind, is scared of a new better mankind.

Did you see that windmills are suspected to have washed eight whales onto beaches ? Whale deaths no match for pursuit of East Coast offshore wind farms .

Eight whales have been beached by windmills and mankind keeps shoving them back into the ocean.

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rinselberg FEB 02, 10:17 AM

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There is no evidence [that the offshore wind energy-related activities] and [the] whale deaths are linked. But Clean Ocean Action, a 40-year-old nonprofit, believes the two things happening at once may be more than just a fluke.


"Why whale deaths are dividing environmentalists — and firing up Tucker Carlson"

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Since December, at least nine whales have been stranded on beaches in New Jersey and New York.


Ry Rivard for Politico; January 29, 2023.
https://www.politico.com/ne...fshore-wind-00079462

This is a very solid-looking report. It includes a few links to other online reports.

I think anyone who is "keen" on this topic would be well served to scroll through this article.

Or to put it another way:

"Well served" is what I think anyone who is keen on this topic would be, if they were to scroll through this article in Politico.

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olejoedad FEB 02, 11:18 AM
So people are blubbering about whale deaths?
rinselberg FEB 02, 12:55 PM

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Originally posted by cliffw:

I thought you was an evolution believer? Can you believe it? You believe that fish came out of the ocean and evolved.

I always wondered why does it not work today.

I guess that mankind, is scared of a new better mankind.


What would lead anyone to think that evolution is not happening right now, just as it has happened continuously on this planet, going back some billons of years to the very dawn of life on earth?
williegoat FEB 02, 01:39 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

What would lead anyone to think that evolution is not happening right now, just as it has happened continuously on this planet, going back some billons of years to the very dawn of life on earth?



Sure, that's why the whales are beaching. They are sprouting legs. Damned treehuggers (whale huggers?) are spoiling their fun.
WonderBoy FEB 02, 06:48 PM
The whales are dying because of all the unused/expired clot shots, bought by big gov, being dumped into the ocean.
cliffw FEB 03, 05:18 AM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:
What would lead anyone to think that evolution is not happening right now, just as it has happened continuously on this planet, going back some billons of years to the very dawn of life on earth?




Your confused? If you want an answer to your question, ask the Global Warming Cult. They don't believe we can evolve if the temperature goes up one degree in 100 years.

Report back the answer to your question.

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