Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Path: netnews.worldnet.att.net!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!inka.de!news.ka.inka.de!not-for-mail From: Stephan Kleinert Subject: NOTS in Germany Message-ID: <32918813.50EBC7F9@gromit.inka.de> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:12:35 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: l.p.m.p. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 87 MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Host: gromit.inka.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.18 i486) Hi, all! On Sunday, my Internet provider received the following mail: > ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- > Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 00:07:13 -0800 (PST) > From: Helena Kobrin > To: (deleted by me) > Cc: (also deleted by me) > > > > Dear Mr. Schneider, > > I represent Religious Technology Center ("RTC"), the owner > of the confidential Advanced Technology of the Scientology > religion and the holder of exclusive rights under the copyrights > applicable to the Advanced Technology materials. The Advanced > Technology materials are confidential, unpublished, copyrighted > works. RTC's works include, among others, the individual works > comprising levels known as "NOTs." > > I have just been informed that one of your subscribers, > whose name may be Gromit, has placed certain NOTs works on his > web site at the following web pages: > > www.inka.de/~gromit/clambake/ned1.html > www.inka.de/~gromit/clambake/ned2.html > www.inka.de/~gromit/clambake/ned3.html > www.inka.de/~gromit/clambake/ned4.html > www.inka.de/~gromit/clambake/ned5.html > www.inka.de/~gromit/clambake/ned6.html > www.inka.de/~gromit/clambake/ned7.html > www.inka.de/~gromit/clambake/not.index.html > > These works have been placed onto this web site without the > authorization of my client. The works are registered with the US > Copyright Office under registration numbers TXu 257326 and TXu 257527. > > These postings violate the copyright laws of the United > States and Germany. Because these postings are on your site, they > are copyright infringements for which you can be held liable. I > therefore request that you remove these materials immediately, and that > you provide me with the name, address, e-mail I.D., and telephone > number of the individual who placed these materials on your website. > > We are currently involved in litigation in the United > States, Holland and Sweden over the same and similar materials in > several lawsuits. A preliminary injunction based on copyright > infringement is in place in three of those suits in the United > States District Court in San Jose, California. And a United > States District Court in the state of Virginia granted a > permanent injunction in favor of my client, related to copyright > infringement of some of these works. > > The court in Holland has recognized that similar materials > are copyrighted, and the defendants in the Dutch case have taken > off their postings of the copyrighted materials in question in > that case. And in Sweden, the court has issued an injunction > against the defendant who posted these works to the Internet. > > The courts in California and Holland have both ruled that an > access provider which is informed that infringement is occurring > through its system and does nothing to stop it can be liable for > contributory infringement. > > We are not seeking to become involved in litigation, but we > will take all necessary measures to protect my client's > intellectual property rights. We presume that you do not want > your system to be used as an instrumentality of infringement, and > that we can resolve this amicably. > > Please confirm that you have removed the copyrighted > material as requested above. I must urge you that speed in > dealing with this situation is critical in light of the fact that > unpublished materials are involved. > > Sincerely, > Helena K. Kobrin I thought you might find this interesting ;) Regards, Stephan