Florian Cramer on Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:41:19 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> Facebook demands Cease & Desist for the "Web 2.0 Suicide Machine" |
The subject line says it all. On behalf of Facebook, the law firm Perkins Coie has sent a Cease and Desist letter to Mike van Gaasbeek from WORM <http://www.wormweb.nl>, the Rotterdam-based experimental arts center of which MODDR_labs <http://www.moddr.net>, creators of the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine <http://www.suicidemachine.org>, are a part of. Suggestions for competent legal defendants for WORM/MODDR would be welcome. As a non-profit organization with roots in improvised and electronic music and avant-garde filmmaking, WORM encounters this situation for the first time. (Other media arts institutions wouldn't have legal defense strategies ready in their desk drawers either.) Since history is repeating itself for the n-th time here, a legal defense network for arts and media organizations, artists, activists and schools seems overdue; a network collaborating with good Internet lawyers and raising funds for 'war chests'. Such networks and organizations do exist in the world of Free Software/Open Source - like the Open Source Legal Defense Center -, but they can't be trusted for such purposes after FLOSS has got itself too deep in bed with Web 2.0 business. Florian -- blog: http://en.pleintekst.nl homepage: http://cramer.pleintekst.nl:70 gopher://cramer.pleintekst.nl # 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: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org