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<nettime> Update on Lawsuit against Leonardo Arts Group |
From: "roger malina" <rmalina@prontomail.com> Date: Wed, May 9, 2001, 7:04 pm Leonardo Electronic Almanac VOLUME 9, NO. 2 <Update on Lawsuit against Leonardo Arts Group > Roger Malina, Chair, Leonardo/ISAST. E-mail: < leo@mitpress.mit.edu > 9 March 2001 I regret to inform you that the lawsuit by Transasia against the non-profit arts group Leonardo has not yet been resolved and will not come to trial until late April 2001. The matter continues to consume large amounts of our energy and resources. Transasia and the venture capital group Leonardo Finance have sued Association Leonardo in France for a million dollars in damages, claiming lost business because search engines often retrieve our Web sites rather that theirs. Leonardo Finance claims to have obtained a French trademark recently on the word Leonardo, which we have now requested be overturned because of our prior use in the publication of the art journal Leonardo since 1967 (we note that a similar affair has been brought to a successful conclusion by the etoy art group). The trial was originally scheduled to be held in December 2000 but at the request of the litigants, Transasia, the trial was delayed because the litigants informed the judge that they were not ready to argue the case at that time. We note that the search engine www.google.com continues to list our Web sites high on their search. All e-mails received by Transasia and Leonardo Finance from supporters of the Leonardo network have been deposited as evidence with the judge by Leonardo Finance. Leonardo continues to solicit donations for its Leonardo Legal Defense Fund to allow us to successfully fight this absurd case. An auction of a donated work by pioneering art and technology artist Sonia Sheridan will be held at the end of March through ebay. Also to be auctioned on ebay are a hat and scarf knitted from wool shorn form the Leonardo Ram. The Leonardo Ram was named "Leonardo" by Harry Koenig in support of the Leonardo Legal Defense Fund. Further information on the ebay auction can be found on the Leonardo Legal Defense Fund site at: < http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/lawsuit.html > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net