thread: 2012-03-03 : Ben Lehman: Caveat Scriba: Margret Weis Productions
On 2012-03-04, TimD wrote:
1) Ben's post could quite legitimately be considered libel and he has opened himself up to legal action by MWP if they desired to pursue it.
2) Ben claims to be protecting these alleged authors (I say alleged because he has offered NO proof that said wronged authors actually exist).
The problem here is that IF there were such wronged authors, MWP would ALREADY know who they are, especially with others coming forward saying the opposite of Ben's claim.
He could also have easily sanitized the information to make it harder/impossible for anybody else (outside MWP) to identify them, and yet still given the details of their interaction with MWP.
3) These alleged authors have/had contracts with MWP. If there were a breech of contract, there would be legal remedies, up to and including remedies which require the pulling of the product, which MWP would be legally required to follow.
In short, there hasn't been any sort of evidence (even the sanitized sort that I mentioned) that MWP has done anything wrong. Without that or any other evidence, that makes Ben into nothing more than "just another internet looney" trying to trump up "fake" outrage for some unknown reason.
