Scientology Dutch defeat
p2p news / p2pnet:- The Dutch Supreme Court will provide a ruling on the Church of Scientology — that is, if the court follows the advice [Dutch - PDF] of its independent counsel, advocaat-generaal Verkade, which is more than likely.
Verkade wrote that the Supreme Court could, and should, judge the Scientology case at least in the interest of the unity and development of law and the general interest.
Scientology tried to withdraw its appeal to the Supreme Court at the last moment after Verkade earlier dismissed Scientology’s crafting of copyright to suppress the freedom of speech.
His latest ruling is great news for ISP XS4ALL and writer Karin Spaink, who’ve been involved in legal proceedings against Scientology for over ten years.
Finally, Scientology’s legal scare tactics will be judged at the highest instance, and will probably be condemned.
Rik Lambers – CoCo
[Lambers is a former researcher at the Institute for Information Law, Amsterdam, who's now in transition to a new full time job in the field of IP/Internet law. He's also an associate member of the European INDICARE project, which researches consumer issues related to DRM.]
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Karin Spaink – DMCA threat used in Canada, June 16, 2005
September 21st, 2005 at 8:10 pm
Some ideas from all what I see from scientology:
1- scientology practices like the Department of History in Orwell’s 1984 (changes its inside rules without members knowing really)
2 – specialists scientologist who are working (as well as their attorneys) on copyrights are in such a mixing of oposed judgements that they can’t really know what is copyrighted or not… and where it is copyrighted.
3 – Think about this: “for all that they take the sword shall perish with the sword…”; not only they’ll perish from their war for copyrights, but they’ll perish from their war before judges.
September 23rd, 2005 at 2:54 am
Karin been hangin in there a lonnnnng time. Just a lil bit more longer, Karin, and you will have done the planet a favor.