Re: News Corp threatens Steve Morgan Friedman with lawsuit if he doesn't take Simpson quotes off the web

["Steve Gustafson" <stevegus@aye.net>]

> >   I am writing because, as you can see from my e-mail domain, I work for
> >Newsdigital, a division of News Corp, owners of the Fox Broadcasting
Network
> >and licensor of The Simpsons name and content.  In fact, in my current
> >capacity at New Digital, I am the producer of The Simpsons website, and
> >overseeing the site's re-launch in January of 2000.

Each Fox or Simpsons legal threat I have ever encountered prior to now has
born the name of Dennis L. Wilson, a Beverly Hills lawyer with the firm of
Baker & Hostetler.  His absence from this communique suggests that it is
bogus.

(On a related note: does anyone know if California has a functioning
attorney complaint and discipline system?  Last time I looked into the
matter, their attorney disciplinary process had essentially ceased to
function due to lack of funding.)

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