Doc Antle vs. Carole Baskin, Big Cat Rescue

Doc Antle is the founder and director of The Rare Species Fund and the Myrtle Beach Safari. Like countless others, Doc is one of Carole Baskin's targets in her crusade against utilizing big cats for monetary purposes. What battles have the two powerhouses of the big cat world been in?
911 Animal Abuse is a website created and owned by Carole Baskin, CEO and founder of Big Cat Rescue. Anyone that doesn't fit into Carole's narrow minded world view regarding the ownership of exotic cats or musters enough courage to speak out against her will most likely end up on that website. The creator of BCR Watch has even ended up on that website (see 911 Animal Abuse Lies).
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Doc Antle was added to that website due to the fact that he owns a facility located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina where he provides tourists the opportunity to interact with his many animal ambassadors ranging anywhere from a large female African elephant to tiger cubs.

We found out that Doc had won a dispute against Carole Baskin back in 2014. Their altercation centered around the domain name, DocAntle.com.

It turns out, Carole Baskin had secretly bought the domain name in an attempt to redirect searches for Doc's name to her erroneous animal abuse website.

​​Doc eventually found out what Carole was doing so he had his attorneys file a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The WIPO Panel determined that the domain name was registered and used in bad faith and should be immediately transferred to Doc.

Not wanting to give up without a fight, Carole filed a lawsuit. (view LAWSUIT)

We recently had a chance to speak with Doc Antle and he told us the he could've easily won the lawsuit. He ultimately decided to let Carole have it for now because fighting and winning a federal lawsuit would have costed tens of thousands of dollars which he felt could be better spent on conservation. Carole was apparently willing to spend large sums of money just to hold onto the domain name even though that money would be better spent on improving her facility and the lives of the animals in her care.

According to bhagavanantle.net, there was another instance where Carole Baskin and Doc Antle faced off:
​Subject: YouTube DMCA Counter-Notification

Counter Notification of claim filed by Bhagavan Antle, of a tiger preservation facility called T.I.G.E.R.S., the acronym for The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species

YouTube, LLC
Attn: YouTube DMCA Counter-Notification
901 Cherry Ave.
Second Floor
San Bruno, CA 94066
Fax: 650.872.8513
Email: copyright@youtube.com

Attn: YouTube DMCA Counter-Notification

Specific URLs of material that YouTube has removed or to which YouTube has disabled access.

YouTube rejected videos that were uploaded to YouTube by Carole Baskin, CEO of Big Cat Rescue, who was attempting to display Doc Bhagavan Antle's cats in a manner that was not approved by him. Permission was not asked to use these videos, and Carole attempted to use the videos to make Doc Bhagavan Steve Antle look bad. Because of this, YouTube agreed to remove the videos and double flagged Carole Baskin's account. Carole Baskin has complained to YouTube stating that she does not need permission from the owner of the cats to show the videos.

Doc Bhagavan Antle takes it personally and takes it seriously when the animals he works so hard to preserve are used in a vicious manner.

Statement from Carole Baskin: "I am Carole Baskin, CEO of Big Cat Rescue and the YouTube account is BigCatRescue. My email address is MakeADifference@BigCatRescue.org and our site administrator's email that is used on the YouTube account is FilmCrew@BigCatRescue.org. Our business address is 12802 Easy Street Tampa, FL 33625 813.920.4130 and our home website is http://www.BigCatRescue.org".
"I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled."

Mistake? Is she stating she "accidentally" put the videos on YouTube thinking they were hers?

Kevin Antle has filed similar claims with GoDaddy.com, google.com and others. There are better ways to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars when so many big cats are being used, abused and discarded by an industry, then to attempt to use others videos and pictures in a way that is harmful to the preservation of the cats.

Though Carole Baskin states, "If I were to learn that I was posting, or allowing the posting of copy right protected material, it would be removed immediately." she still claims using videos and pictures of animals that are not hers is ok to do.
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