📧 CnD Follow Up
Sent January 22, 2025 at 1117 to all prior addressees plus the Executive Director, Chief Advancement Officer, Chief Operations Officer, and Senior Adviser.
I gave Sojourners two full weeks to remove my unpaid, copyrighted work from its website. Sojourners failed to do so. [Chief Operations Officer] Matt Murphy has no proof of any agreement under which my rights were unreserved, licensed, or in any way extended, perpetually or not, to Sojourners. That being the case, Sojourners is in violation of federal copyright law.
By flaunting laws protecting authors, Sojourners has stolen my work and undermined my professional worth, forcing me to seek legal remedy. In order to do so, I have to assign a dollar value to my work. If I sought one dollar per day for only those 33 essays for which I withdrew my copyrights starting Saturday, that would only amount to $165. Since you have not furnished documentation for compensating me for publishing "The State and the Union" (published June 2009) and "The Right to Refuse to Bear Arms" (December, 2010), that would amount to $5,166 for the former and $5,714 for the latter. That would total $11,045.
If you continue to violate my rights as an author, your liability will only continue to grow. Below you will find a list detailing my work that you've stolen; I will periodically check the URLs to see whether you have compiled with my request and federal copyright law. In the meantime, consider yourselves put on notice that I intend to file suit for copyright infringement. If you have legal counsel I am happy to deal with them, but that will not delay my filing suit against a supposedly "Christian organization" for stealing someone's labor.
