The Oatmeal is a comic site, it is owned and hosted by Matthew Inman, who is a web designer, graphic artist and general web comedian. His site, TheOatmeal.com, contains all of his work, including comics, quizzes, stories, and other hilarious things, appreciated by many.

A while back, The Oatmeal made a blog post pertaining to the posting of his copyrighted content on FunnyJunk, and as time went on the administrator of FunnyJunk removed all content containing the words "The Oatmeal", but a lot of the content had not said anything about The Oatmeal or Matthew.

June 2nd, a letter was sent to Matthew Inman from FunnyJunk's lawyer, informing him of FunnyJunk's request of all statements about the FunnyJunk be removed from The Oatmeal's site and The Oatmeal pay $20,000 in damages or have a federal lawsuit filed against the site. This is really not fair to The Oatmeal which posts its own content, the lawsuit and damages requests need to be stopped.

The lawyer's letter: http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/blog/funnyjunk_letter/full_letter.jpg

The lawyer's letter with annotations by The Oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk_letter