Fwd: <textz.com> copy adorno, go to jail?

— "textz.com" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:50:56 +0100
> From: "textz.com" <[email protected]>
> To: "textz.com" <[email protected]>
> Subject: <textz.com> copy adorno, go to jail?
>
> 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:[email protected]
>
>
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>
> 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 [email protected].
>
> - 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 [email protected].
>
> - 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.)
>
>
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>
> 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
>


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