] Matthew Somerville is a public-spirited UK geek who
] specialises in hacking badly designed websites into
] accessible websites, by scraping their info and
] repoublishing it to comply with accessibility standards.
]
] He did this service for Odeon Cinemas, whose unusably bad
] website is doubly impossible if you have any disability,
] and made a small splash: he'd disovered a bunch of
] security holes in their user-data collection that he
] brought to their attention, he turned their website into
] something that all their customers could use, he put in
] many hours of unpaid labour to improve their public
] offering.
]
] At the time, Odeon told the press that they were OK with
] this (how generous!), but now they've threatened to sue
] him, siccing lawyers on him and accusing him of
] infringing their trademarks, copyrights, and "database
] rights" (database rights are a really stupid
] psuedocopyright that the EU has created to allow people
] to copyright collections of public facts, like the names
] of all the colours or the start times of all the movies).