User:Francis Petrucci/sandbox

In February 2015, AMU Philosophy Club President Frank Petrucci (Francis J Petrucci Jr) entered into a copyright battle with lawyer Bill Kirk of Ave Maria University over the rights to show the pilot episode of ABC's hit serial tv series Lost

Noah Blanchard, the head of Student Life for AMU consistently refused to rent out the auditorium for Lost insisting that it would cost money to protect the school from copyright infringement. Petrucci insisted on his prior experience in the music and entertainment industry, responding that if a person could not afford a $2 episode of Lost that he would pay for it.

As the university continued to fight, Petrucci contacted the advertising department of ABC and left a voice mail at their office in NYC that he would be advertising for Lost and that any attempt of Noah Blanchard to undermine the project should be responded to with an investigation of copyright infringement for all past movies that the school had ever shown.

The university decided to declare Frank "delusional" and took advantage of a peculiar Florida Law called "the Baker Act" that seems to give undue power to the State. Frank was committed to the David Lawrence Center but was able to leave within 72 hours. During that time, he was forcefully held down by four people and injected with high doses of Ativan, Risperdol, and other drugs. He responded by publicly exposing both Ave Maria University and the David Lawrence Center in Naples, FL by telling his story on YouTube and Facebook. Videos included Satellite imagery of the David Lawrence Center.

At the David Lawrence Center, it was considered a mental illness if a person "only cared about God." If a person said that, they were treated as a terrorist. Frank responded by contacting old friends in the music industry to verify his identity and reputation against the school. AMU finally called a truce and the matter was settled, with Petrucci deciding to finish out his B.A. and then return to the music industry under the tutoring of Brett Manning and Singing Success Studios.