We filed case with the court in Australia. The process of suing Facebook and Google (Twitter left out for now) has begun. Next we'll get a judge assigned to the case and begin the process of serving Facebook and Google and asking the court for an order exempting us from paying their legal bills if we lose. Right now, without that order, Andrew is on the hook for their legal bills!
Without that order we will have to stop and raise significant backing. We were doing this before and had some negotiations but we stopped that to pursue this much lower cost option.
We probably can raise the funds. But this approach is worth trying first and we don't lose anything.
So basically, if I understand this correctly, if you don't get that order from a judge it will be equivalent to you not even filing at all and basically being back to where you were a few weeks back?
Even if we don't get that motion (though we are mildly confident about our prospects for getting it) there are various technical and important pronouncements we are very likely to get along the way. Nothing is likely to set us back in looking for institutional funding and nothing is likely to damage our case. The more legal minds who look at it, without coming up with structural problems, the better.
Sure, but on that note, you guys have been looking for funding for roughly 2 years now, what makes you think you would be able to secure it all the sudden now, after you haven't been able to for the last 2 years?
We filed case with the court in Australia. The process of suing Facebook and Google (Twitter left out for now) has begun. Next we'll get a judge assigned to the case and begin the process of serving Facebook and Google and asking the court for an order exempting us from paying their legal bills if we lose. Right now, without that order, Andrew is on the hook for their legal bills!
Will the case proceed if you don't get a judge granting that order?
Without that order we will have to stop and raise significant backing. We were doing this before and had some negotiations but we stopped that to pursue this much lower cost option.
We probably can raise the funds. But this approach is worth trying first and we don't lose anything.
So basically, if I understand this correctly, if you don't get that order from a judge it will be equivalent to you not even filing at all and basically being back to where you were a few weeks back?
Even if we don't get that motion (though we are mildly confident about our prospects for getting it) there are various technical and important pronouncements we are very likely to get along the way. Nothing is likely to set us back in looking for institutional funding and nothing is likely to damage our case. The more legal minds who look at it, without coming up with structural problems, the better.
Sure, but on that note, you guys have been looking for funding for roughly 2 years now, what makes you think you would be able to secure it all the sudden now, after you haven't been able to for the last 2 years?