Twenty One Anonymous Maui Community Television Producers Vindicated. Akaku President Jay April RevoltingStatement from the Twenty One Anonymous Maui Community Television Producers, sued by Akaku President Jay April for their own Copyrights:
"On April 15, 2008, Judge Joel August Dismissed Lance Collins' Frivolous lawsuit against twenty one anonymous Maui Community Television Producers. The dismissal of this lawsuit is an overwhelming vindication of Maui's independent community television producers and an indication that Judge August neither believe State owned Akaku: Maui Community Television President Jay April's misrepresentations, lies or other false claims including:
1) that Jay April and Jay April only, as President and Chief Executive Officer Of Akaku: Maui Community Television owns the copyrights to all Maui Community Television Programming, and the exclusive right to decide what gets shown when, and
2) that all "Free Speech" broadcast on Maui Community Television had to be registered with Akaku: Maui Community Television, and
3) that all Maui Community Television producers required a license from Akaku: Maui Community Television to show their own productions anywhere other than on the State owned PEG Access Channels 52, 53, 54, 55 and 56, and that he himself, Jay April, as President and CEO of Akaku: Maui Community Television has the sole exclusive right to arbitrarily deny access to Maui Community Television without cause.
Your actions are revolting, and your flag wrapped violations of free speech do an injustice to the young men and women that willingly give their lives for the very freedoms you so causally seem to have no problems infringing on others. From your willingness to deny access to those in our community, to the inappropriate behavior you have subjected your female producers to, you in no way represent the quality of these young men and women that truly know what freedom is, and its cost.
Maui Community Television's Independent Producers hope the Akaku: Maui Community Television Board of Directors will hold Mr. April personally accountable for the thousands of dollars in legal fees resulting from his failed, facist and quite illegal crusade of lawsuits against the State, the Community and our own high school children for the sole purpose of trying to cover up his own wrong doing. Any attempt to misappropriate State Public Access Television Fees to pay for Mr. April's latest legal fiasco, would just be one more misappropriation of these Public Funds intended exclusively to provide Public, Educational and Governmental Access Television Services to Maui County's Citizens."
