Cathy Brennan files legal copyright claim over ownership of RadFem Hub
January 29, 2015
GenderTrender received notification yesterday from WordPress.com that Cathy Brennan has filed a legal copyright claim of ownership for the now-archived website RadFem Hub.
Specifically, Ms. Brennan demanded that GenderTrender cease and desist in displaying the above screenshot of the RadFem Hub website header on the grounds that Brennan is the sole and legal owner of said intellectual property.
Cathy Brennan played no part in the creation of the RadFem Hub project, nor participated in the creation of its header or graphics design. She was reportedly brought on board just prior to the demise of the site, under verbal agreement that she would maintain the $50. a year URL costs in perpetuity, an agreement that was apparently reneged on in the space of one year. It is believed that Brennan produced no original content related to the site.
Brennan filed six other simultaneous copyright claims against this website for seemingly random materials published on GenderTrender.
All of her claims have (thankfully) been rejected as without merit by WordPress.com. One might speculate that such claims represent harassment, censorship, and abuse by a wealthy financial services legal partner against a low income working class lesbian feminist blogger, possibly due to ongoing political disagreements.
January 29, 2015 at 8:44 am
Well, that’s just silly. Can you add screen shots of the WordPress stuff?
January 29, 2015 at 9:01 am
I will if she disputes it.
January 29, 2015 at 9:11 am
Fair enough.
January 29, 2015 at 9:27 am
If there is any misunderstanding AT ALL , I would be happy to clear it up right away. ;)
January 29, 2015 at 8:48 am
Reblogged this on There Are So Many Things Wrong With This and commented:
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January 29, 2015 at 9:07 am
This it outrages !!
January 29, 2015 at 9:17 am
Yes. I think so too.
January 29, 2015 at 9:39 am
I can see why Elizabeth Hungerford distanced herself from her.
January 29, 2015 at 9:53 am
Cathy likes to harm gender-critical, lesbian, lesbian feminist, and radical feminist women. As much as she can. Destroy them. Since day one. And gender-critical gay men and trans males and trans females too.
January 29, 2015 at 10:20 am
Wtf? I just discovered that site a few months ago, specifically from reading past entries on GenderTrender (including the one on how Brennan reneged on the agreement to maintain the URL), and now it doesn’t seem safe in her hands. And she is serving GT with… Oh forget it. This is such bullshit. As soon as I have money to spare again (in two weeks or so) I am donating to this site.
Thanks, GM, for all that you do.
January 29, 2015 at 10:34 am
Thanks. Pretty hard to run a website when a millionaire sociopath is targeting you with legalese harassment. If WordPress.com legal hadn’t stepped up this time we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Brennan would have had this site shuttered. This isn’t the first time she’s targeted GenderTrender and me personally. And my family.
January 29, 2015 at 10:37 am
And hey! Guess what! I wouldn’t be saying it if it wasn’t true because the perpetrator looovvveeesss to sue people. So.
January 29, 2015 at 10:59 am
WTF?
I hate this. We- as in radfem, lesbian, radlesbians, and anyone gender critical/abolitionist- don’t need more enemies, especially not those that pretend to agree!
Did she promise to pay for the hub just so she could shut it down? Is she an infiltrator? With so much patriarchal hate and reversal, this wouldn’t shock me, just depress me, to see a women doing this to help men.
But really- This is what millionaires and billionaires do- they use the laws that favor them to screw everyone else. never trust a really rich person, their hands (or their relatives) are usually bloody.
I’m sorry you have to deal with this GM. Your site has been so vital, and your work so excellent, of course heaters are gonna hate. it hurts more coming from a sister.
January 29, 2015 at 11:12 am
Why? I don’t know. Many of us have been asking that for some time. We have agonized over that question. Because (my opinion only) this person has done such good IMPORTANT work in raising public awareness of these issues, and has paid such a high price for doing so!
The thing is our desire to support and protect the good work (and the person doing it) is what enables her insane abusive behavior.
“it hurts more coming from a sister”.
Yes, yes, and by an unspeakable degree of harm, yes.
January 29, 2015 at 11:16 am
Even having this discussion publicly harms our movement. BUT SHE LEAVES ME NO CHOICE. She tried to and wants to DESTROY this blog, AND ME PERSONALLY.
And I am not unique. This is ongoing behavior.
January 29, 2015 at 11:21 am
Believe me, I have tried through multiple avenues over multiple years to mediate Cathy’s ugly destructive actions.
January 29, 2015 at 11:23 am
She gets off on it. This is all a game to her.
January 29, 2015 at 11:19 am
Yes, this is why I don’t trust wealthy people.
“At the base of every great fortune there is a great crime.”
Gallus, the women here will have your back, I am sure.
January 29, 2015 at 11:30 am
Honestly I don’t care if they do, this makes me so sick.
And what does that even mean? Trashing her?
I’m just sick over it all.
The horror is, that reality -me being sick- would apparently please her.
January 29, 2015 at 11:34 am
At some point you just have to say no. And I’m saying it now. LOUDLY AND CLEARLY. Fuck YOU Brennan. YOU should feel sick for what you do. You won’t, because you are a sociopath. But YOU DESERVE TO.
January 29, 2015 at 11:35 am
And lets get real, everybody fucking knows it.
January 29, 2015 at 11:41 am
She gets off on harming women.
January 29, 2015 at 11:40 am
Gallus, I know. It is sickening. No, we shouldn’t trash her. Please, please don’t let it get to you (hard, I know). You have done so much work that you should be immensely proud of. You have awakened so many, including once-clueless het women like me.
I don’t know the ins and outs of this dispute, admittedly. I just want you to know how much your work counts. I see many other women becoming “radicalized” as the backlash continues, and I think your voice contributed to that, no matter what happens.
I hope this can be resolved, somehow, some way.
Peace and love, sister.
January 29, 2015 at 11:44 am
Thank you hon. The resolution in this case is ultimately attempting to remove oneself from harm and warning others. Sad. But it is what it is. x
January 29, 2015 at 11:42 am
Millionaire misogynistic sociopath. No feminist of any kind.
January 29, 2015 at 11:43 am
PS by having your back I didn’t mean trashing her. But that we would find a way to make this blog go on, even if she does (big if) try to shut it down. This blog means too much to me to let that happen.
January 29, 2015 at 11:47 am
Thank you x. I feel that way too. (((Juliana)))
January 29, 2015 at 11:55 am
No, big thanks to YOU! Hugs to you, GM. Have to sign off for now. Sigh, work….
January 29, 2015 at 11:53 am
Fucking Cathy Brennan claiming ownership over RadFem Hub graphics. LOL. IT IS TO LAUGH. What a payday lending fuck.
January 29, 2015 at 11:54 am
Ah OWNS EVERYTHINGGGG! lolololololololol.
January 29, 2015 at 12:01 pm
You alll make payments to meeeeeeee!
lolololol
January 29, 2015 at 12:11 pm
If anyone ever needs testimony proving Cathy Brennan falsifies legal claims: drop me a line.
January 29, 2015 at 12:24 pm
Even if copyright attains in a small screenshot (copyright exists only in “significant” portions of a work), its editorial reproduction is protected by fair use under U.S. law.
Are you trying to say that Brennan filed a DMCA claim? Did you file a counterclaim?
January 29, 2015 at 12:29 pm
She filed multiple false illegal fictional copyright claims. They were rejected.
January 29, 2015 at 12:33 pm
She filed seven false claims. All were rejected.
January 29, 2015 at 12:35 pm
She just filed seven false, koo koo, cray cray, lying-ass claims. Like lying liars do.
January 29, 2015 at 12:39 pm
Her false, lying, harassing censorial claims were so absurd that WordPress.com agreed to accept liability/and or represent me against her koo koo lying harassment.
January 29, 2015 at 12:42 pm
(Because: fake ass sociopathic lying liar). Who lies. And makes up shit.
January 29, 2015 at 1:42 pm
Un fucking believable. How does such a destructive lying asshole survive in the world? Oh that’s right. Millionaire Payday etc.
January 29, 2015 at 1:47 pm
That’s really weird… I had no idea she was this difficult. I just thought she was another radfem on the internet, which was cool. Shame we can’t all get along.
January 29, 2015 at 1:56 pm
Weird doesn’t begin to cover this. If you have any suggestions about how to “get along” with a person who does these things please let me know.
January 29, 2015 at 2:03 pm
I was implying that she should do more to get along, but no… I have no suggestions.