Mic and Ocean,
It sounds more like a witch hunt based on a deal that never occured. You have been quick to dig up facts but if any are false you are both treading on thin legal grounds. This company has done nothing wrong. Ocean's deal did not happen, anybody know why? Copperkid got less than he expected, was the company wrong or did he overvalue the material in his mind.?
Mic,
I hope for your sake you are not mistaken about the history of Metalbac and that it is the very same one.
You have both done an excellent job of smearing (sp) these people. Aside from not buying oceans stuff what awfull thing did they do to deserve this?
You should both read at least the last line of the definition below.
Defamation—also called calumny, vilification, slander (for transitory statements), and libel (for written, broadcast, or otherwise published words)—is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government, or nation a negative image. It is usually a requirement that this claim be false and that the publication is communicated to someone other than the person defamed (the claimant).[1]
In common law jurisdictions, slander refers to a malicious, false,[2] and defamatory spoken statement or report, while libel refers to any other form of communication such as written words or images.[3] Most jurisdictions allow legal actions, civil and/or criminal, to deter various kinds of defamation and retaliate against groundless criticism. Related to defamation is public disclosure of private facts, which arises where one person reveals information that is not of public concern, and the release of which would offend a reasonable person. "
False light laws are "intended primarily to protect the plaintiff's mental or emotional well-being."[5] If a publication of information is false, then a tort of defamation might have occurred. If that communication is not technically false but is still misleading, then a tort of false light might have occurred.[5]
In most civil law jurisdictions, defamation is dealt with as a crime rather than a tort.[