David Horowitz dump on free speech on the left leads to "copyright" case

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http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=20492&repository=0001_article
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/14543692.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/15/business/media/15horowitz.html

Photo May Shift Old Spat From Academia to Court

May 15, 2006, Monday
By SARA IVRY (NYT); Business/Financial Desk
Late Edition - Final, Section C, Page 9, Column 3, 327 words

When David Horowitz, the editor in chief of the conservative online journal FrontPage, published the pamphlet ''Campus Support for Terrorism'' last year, he put a photograph of Joel Beinin, a professor of Middle East history at Stanford, on the cover. The move effectively relocated an ideological battle ...


http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22536

In March, in a move clearly designed to obstruct opinions he didn’t like, Beinin filed suit for copyright infringement against the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (the publisher of FrontPageMag.com)(N.B., Horowitz claims the reason his face is on the cover is the fact that as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), Beinin issued a 2002 statement on behalf of MESA’s board of directors condemning Al-Arian’s dismissal from the university....and in http://www.censoringthought.org/beinin.html "The New McCarthyism:
Policing Thought about the Middle East" where in a very long and well documented article he said "Just as dangerous, but more immediately efficacious, is the private
initiative of the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations to add restrictive
language to their grant stipulations. The Ford Foundation will withdraw
funding from any university grantee that expends funds, of any
provenance, to promote “violence, terrorism, or bigotry or the
destruction of any state.” The Rockefeller Foundation now requires that
grantees shall not “directly or indirectly engage in, promote or support
other organizations or individuals who engage in or promote terrorist
activity.”35 For the uninitiated, such language might seem bizarre.
What American university would actually promote terrorism? Is it
plausible that previous Rockefeller grantees did so? What activities
would be covered by this language? If a Palestinian student group
called for the replacement of the state of Israel with a secular,
democratic state, would that constitute calling for “the destruction of any
state” and thereby threaten their university’s Ford Foundation grants?" - a paragraph Horowitz implies means Beinin supports terrorists).

CSPC's response was today's email asking for money because the rich left may dig deep to support Joel Beinin:

"Just days ago (N.B., filed in March) I learned that Joel Beinin, a leftist professor at Stanford, was suing CSPC... Beinin -- a professor of Middle East history -- claims that we've defamed him by putting his picture on our booklet, "Campus Support for Terrorism." That booklet's been out for more than a year...He's claiming copyright infringement. Of course, he copyrighted the picture long after the booklet was published. In fact, the photo didn't even belong to him in the first place. He had the photographer assign the copyright to him so he could sue us...We quickly established that this was a political attack. You see, we offered to take his picture off the cover of any future printings. That doesn't matter. Beinin is suing anyway!...

David Horowitz "