Website owner accused of copyright infringement gets pro bono counsel
A software engineer who posted bank routing numbers, among other sensitive data, on his website received a strongly worded cease and desist letter from the American Bankers Association (ABA) in June.
September 03, 2013 at 07:51 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.com
Greg Thatcher found himself a friend in Martin & Associates.
Thatcher, a software engineer who posted bank routing numbers, among other sensitive data on his website, received a strongly worded cease and desist letter from the American Bankers Association (ABA) in June. In the letter, the ABA, via its counsel Covington & Burling, accused Thatcher of copyright infringement for publishing the routing numbers, claiming they are “an original copyright work carefully selected and arranged as a result of the ABA's creativity.”
But Andrew B. Delaney, a lawyer at Martin & Associates, wasn't buying the ABA's infringement claims and jumped to Thatcher's defense – free of charge. Last week, Delaney, who frequented Thatcher's site for routing numbers before he took them down after receiving the ABA's letter, responded saying he was going to “set the record straight.”
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