Activistas de los derechos de los hombres protestan reclamación de copyright de la mujer sobre el suicidio nota de su ex marido por publicar sus contenidos en línea y la lectura en voz alta en los vídeos online.
Chris Mackney se quitó la vida en diciembre de 2013, dejando tras de sí una nota de cuatro páginas de culpar a su suicidio en un sistema de "roto" familia judicial que lo despojó de sus derechos de paternidad, identidad, e incluso su trabajo después de un divorcio contencioso.
"Llevé a mi propia vida, porque yo había llegado a la conclusión de que no había nada que pudiera decir o hacer para poner fin a los abusos", escribió Mackney. "Cada vez que me levanté de mis rodillas, me conseguiría golpeado de nuevo hacia abajo. Ellos no iban a dejarme ser el padre que quería ser para mis hijos. La gente puede pensar que soy un cobarde para renunciar a mis hijos, pero yo no veo cómo me iba a curar de esto. "
Men’s rights activists are protesting a woman’s copyright claim over her ex-husband’s suicide note by posting its contents online and reading it aloud in online videos.
Chris Mackney took his own life in December 2013, leaving behind a four-page note blaming his suicide on a “broken” family court system that stripped him of his parental rights, identity, and even his job following a contentious divorce.
“I took my own life because I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing I could do or say to end the abuse,” Mackney wrote. “Every time I got up off my knees, I would get knocked back down. They were not going to let me be the father I wanted to be to my children. People may think I am a coward for giving up on my children, but I didn’t see how I was going to heal from this.”
In spite of that, a judge put his ex-wife, Dina Mackney, in charge of his estate, and another judge issued a court order giving her authority over the men’s right’s activists web postings.
“(Dina Mackney) shall have the legal authority to take any reasonable action necessary to access, remove and destroy any web postings, to require that websites be taken down and/or otherwise dispose of intangible property including but not limited to information that the deceased has posted online on any website or social media account,” the judge ruled.
The judge included a lengthy list of domain names, including a variety of blogs that discussed Chris Mackney’s case – as well as Google, Facebook, Reddit, and Wikipedia.
The judge’s order covered any online activity in the 45-year-old’s lifetime.
Attorney Rachelle E. Hill, of the law firm Bean, Kinney and Korman, has sent cease-and-desist notices to website operators demanding they remove the content, including Chris Mackney’s suicide note.
The letters claim the postings violate copyright law, and the attorney also argues the posts are defamatory and violate the privacy of Dina Mackney and the couple’s two children.
Paul Elam, who operates the Voice for Men website, said the note was posted months ago in the site’s online forum, and he considered doing a feature on it but could not verify its claims.
But he said the cease-and-desist letter resolved those issues to his satisfaction, and he reposted an excerpt from the suicide note in story posted on the site’s front page.
