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


--- "textz.com" <textz@textz.org> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:50:56 +0100
> From: "textz.com" <textz@textz.org>
> To: "textz.com" <textz@textz.org>
> 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:textz@textz.org
>
>
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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 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.)
>
>
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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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DISCUSSION

from Women(2004)


Kima akimbo as I sleep through layers of
acculturation, stoned again and shit-myself lazy; Kima
alone and walking through certain shadows of me, a
stain a cloud the minerals in our water that conduct:
have you ever starved yourself for clarity? If I stay
away from these women will I know what I want?

"Morning hair folded curtain-neatly along the daylight
of wrong potatoes."

"Asleepless with a warm-up, I would stumble even
across these messy endings out of love for you, to
kiss petal aluminium morning fades on my eyelids'
sulphur, so delicate and sore like ingrown nails.
Something in a machine that organizes violence on
language won't nap with me; it's attributable to
cascades of barometer. Renee blames me, moving on."

Renee blames both of us.

Smoke nails my eyes shut.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all
you see. On Valentine's day a drunk Kima needs to get
laid. She wrote to me. Vikings, vespas. A pink thunder
a cursory and impenetrable lighting. She mentions how
hard it is to know her.

The sense walking home last night on Cooper Foster
that I was trapped in a tunnel without flow chirping
like mad this morning, filling steel skies with crud.

I crawl in spaces between.

And at night the memories circle me like carrion
birds.

I'd sleep a whole mountain of you excavated next to
me, a pang at the core and blooming boo-boos, booms
and cranes, a whole crowded horizon frazzled with
impudent corpses. They don't remember my name there,
but I remember yours, Renee: trailing off like
elliptical traces of a cigarette in a closed room you
enter later, and later our history bloody from lying
between us so long it's drenched, changeable and
hereditary, wakes up into night's middle alone and
hungry for something to engulf and gorge on. That's
me, in the back in the black clothes, waving my red
flag.

"I know why she left."

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Cory Arcangel


a net art deconstruction
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Bing may bring a young trio to sing songs at noon.


Lesson 13
by: garymsoccer 02/13/04 10:35 am
Msg: 7 of 7

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Mala can mix a ham salad for six; Max can fix tea
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By am end fix men box hem but six now cut gem ribs
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If us me do an sow the cut big jam rub oak lax boy
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Curl work form born name flex just done many right
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Or jam if she for me is big an end or buy is to be
To fix and cut for work and suck big firm the call
To fix and cut for work and suck big firm the call
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Jacki is now at the gym; Lex is due there by four.
Joni saw that she could fix my old bike for Gilda.
Joni saw that she could fix my old bike for Gilda.
Mrs. Dixon may take her Ed. D. exam early in March.
Mrs. Dixon may take her Ed. D. exam early in March.
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Lex may send a box c.o.d. to Ms. Fox in St. Croix.
J. D. and Max will go b boat to St. Louis in May.
J. D. and Max will go b boat to St. Louis in May.
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Owen keyed ect. For etc. and lost the match to me.
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Max told them that he will next fit the main axle.
Wilf and Rona work in Tucson with Rowena and Drew.
Wilf and Rona work in Tucson with Rowena and Drew.
Lucy cut a huge cake for just the four lucky boys.
Lucy cut a huge cake for just the four lucky boys.
Mr. And Mrs. J. L. Nance set sail for Long Island.
Mr. And Mrs. J. L. Nance set sail for Long Island.
Bing may bring a young trio to sing songs at noon.
Bing may bring a young trio to sing songs at noon.
Lottie will tell the two little boys a good story.
Lottie will tell the two little boys a good story.
Ria said she will first build a large fire of fir.
Ria said she will first build a large fire of fir.
Chet was here when the eight hikers hit the trail.
Chet was here when the eight hikers hit the trail

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associate editor, _sidereality

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