ariel authier on Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:41:39 +0100 (CET) |
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[rohrpost] Fw: <textz.com> copy adorno, go to jail? |
COPY, COPY, CPOY, COPY, COPY, COPYA, COPIA > Copy Adorno, Go To Jail? Textz.com Doesn't Think So > > The Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Culture, presided by > Jan Philipp Reemtsma, has just advanced science and culture to a whole new > level: Sebastian Luetgert, the founder of textz.com, is facing a warrant of > arrest and may go to jail if he fails to pay more than 2,300 euros in damages > for the alleged copying of two essays by Theodor W. Adorno that the foundation > claims as their "intellectual property". Reemtsma was kindly asked to settle, > but refused. > > The case dates back to August 2002, when the foundation filed for a preliminary > injunction against Luetgert at the Hamburg State Court, referring to the alleged > distibution of two works by Theodor W. Adorno, "Jargon der Eigentlichkeit" and > "Fascism and Anti-Semitic Propaganda". Since not a single e-mail was sent to > notify textz.com of the matter, and since written notification failed to reach > the defendant, textz.com only learned about the issue after a few days. The > works in question were immediately removed from the site to avoid any further > legal hassles. > > In December 2003, Luetgert found himself confronted with a warrant of arrest, > obtained against him by the Hamburg Foundation, citing unpaid claims related to > the unauthorized copying of said works. In January 2004, Luetgert addressed the > issue in a letter to Reemtsma and asked for a scholarship so he could pay this > debt and avoid jail time. Reemtsma did not reply, but handed the letter over to > his foundation's lawyers - Senfft, Kersten, Voss-Andreae & Schwenn - who insist > on the payment of 2,331.32 Euros for alleged damages and legal fees. > > Textz.com believes that an "intellectual proprietor" of Theodor W. Adorno and > Walter Benjamin who claims to advance science and culture by sending people to > jail for taking Adorno and Benjamin serious is seriously wrong on a whole number > of points. The Hamburg Foundation undererstimates the resistance of their > possessions against their legal protection just as much as their lawyers > underestimate the ability of the Internet to route around damage. In the end, > they may even be wrong in thinking that they will ever get their property back. > > Today, in an open letter (http://textz.com/adorno/open_letter.txt), Reemtsma has > been notified that his foundation's "intellectual property" has been returned to > the public domain. This first-of-its-kind protest signals a refusal to let > copyright holders and lawyers censor the very works they pretend to protect and > control what the public can archive or read. There is a universal right to copy > that will never cease to apply, and there is copyright legislation that will. > The spectre haunting the scientific and cultural industries is a new commons > materializing before their very own eyes. We're just at the beginning. > > Textz.com > February 24, 2004 > > http://textz.com > mailto:textz@textz.org > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > > How you can support textz.com: > > - Spread the word. Tell your friends, tell a journalist, write about it, put it > on a website, post it to a mailing list, etc. Textz.com is also available for > interviews, just mail to press@textz.org. > > - Sign our petition at http://textz.com/adorno/petition.html. > > - Write a letter to Jan Philipp Reemtsma, Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement > of Science and Culture, Mittelweg 36, 20148 Hamburg, Germany. If you like, > send a copy of your letter to textz@textz.org. > > - Donate to textz.com via http://textz.com/adorno/donate.html. > > - Buy a copy of Robert Luxemburg's "The Conceptual Crisis of Private Property as > a Crisis in Practice" (http://textz.com/crisis). All proceedings will go to > textz.com's fund for legal expenses. > > - Put our "Free Adorno" banner (http://textz.com/adorno/banner.gif) on your > website, and/or link to http://textz.com/adorno. > > - Meet textz.com at Neuro Festival, February 26-29, Munich, Germany (check > http://neuro.kein.org for details) and join our discussion about further > strategies in this case. > > - Select all, copy, paste, save, upload, share. Reappropriate. (And remember: > there is no need to break what you can circumvent. Don't innovate, imitate.) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > > Related links: > > Documentation of our correnspondence: > http://textz.com/adorno/documentation.de.txt > http://textz.com/adorno/documentation.en-babelfish.txt > > Press coverage: > http://textz.com/adorno/press.txt > > Open Letter to Jan Philipp Reemtsma: > http://textz.com/adorno/open_letter.txt > > The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction: > http://textz.com/adorno/work_of_art.txt > > Franz Kafka on "intellectual property": > http://textz.com/kafka > > Textz.com mission statement, early 2001: > http://textz.com/concept > > What others say about textz.com: > http://textz.com/press > > The textz that textz.com is all about: > http://textz.com/cache > http://textz.com/textz > > Some state-of-the-art copyright circumvention technologies: > http://textz.com/trash > http://textz.com/crisis > > Some more stuff we have not yet been sued for: > http://textz.com/search > http://textz.com/news > > Drop us a line, send us a text, or subscribe to our newsletter: > http://textz.com/contact > > Finally, while freeing Adorno, please free the Grey Album too: > http://textz.com/greyalbum/greyalbum.html > ------------------------------------------------------- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.openoffice.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/