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From: heldal@online.no (Andreas Heldal.Lund)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: New mail from Kobrin to ISP in Norway
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 02:06:55 GMT
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New mail from Kobrin to current NOTs host (the ISP) in Norway:
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Dear Mr. Haaheim,

     Thank you for your response.  I do agree that there are
weird people on the Internet.  I can certainly send you a fax on
my letterhead to confirm that I am who I say.  I have, however,
contacted my client's attorney in Norway and requested that she
contact you with the information you requested.   To provide you
with some rapid information, I am also e-mailing you here.  

     It is Norwegian copyright law that is being infringed, and
my Norwegian counterpart will provide you with the references. 
You question whether these materials are unpublished.  Under
copyright law, a work is unpublished if its owner did not publish
the work or authorize its publication by another.  Neither my
client nor its predecessors have ever published these works or
authorized them to be published by anyone else.  The only reason
any copy of these works is available anywhere is as a result of
theft, for which one of the thieves was convicted in Denmark.

     If you will provide me with the name, e-mail and/or street
address and/or telephone number, I will be happy to contact the
person who made the posting, and I request that you do so.  

     However, regardless of whether I am able to contact that
person or not, courts are ruling in various countries that if an
access provider is placed on notice of an infringement and does
nothing to stop it, the access provider can be held liable along
with the primary infringer.  This is the approach currently under
consideration to be adopted for Europe at a conference in Berne.

     I again ask that, in order to minimize my client's damages,
you remove these materials from your web site or at least block
access to them while we complete our dialogue (or the dialogue
with the Norwegian attorney) on this subject.  This would be far
preferable to all concerned, including your company, over going
to court.

                                   Sincerely,
                                   Helena K. Kobrin
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Oooo, she so cute... ;)


Andreas Heldal-Lund 
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