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    • Nov 2001
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    Copyright Law Firm Does Not Respect Copyright

    In an act of hypocrisy, anti-piracy law firms may have themselves engaged in piracy of the worst kind by copying mailing templates from other law firms without permission.

    All of this has been revealed in the leaked emails from ACS:Law, an indirect result of Internet community 4chan's "Operation Payback", targeting anti-piracy firms and organisations in a series of Internet related attacks.

    The leaked emails reveal that ACS:Law, in the interest of friendship, helped competing law firm Tilly, Bailey and Irvine by providing them templates of mass mailings that Tilly, Bailey and Irvine were to examine, and based their version on. Instead, Tilly, Bailey and Irvine simply took ACS:Law's templates and used it as their own, much to the anger of ACS:Law's chief, Andrew Crossley. Crossley fired off an angry email accusing Tilly, Bailey and Irvine of acting in bad faith.

    But the story takes another turn because the very templates that ACS:Law had been using wasn't their own creation either. Davenport Lyons was the original law firm in the UK to get into the settlement fee business, and they were the original creators of these templates. Davenport Lyons ceased its copyright settlement business due to bad publicity, and many key people involved in the business moved on to ACS:Law, licensing the templates used by DL in the process.

    There is a happy ending sort of, in that Tilly, Bailey and Irvine withdrew from the copyright settlement business, due to what they called "adverse publicity", and the resources needed to deal with it.

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