Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 06:33:34 -0300
To: koenig @ cyberlink.ch
From: xxxx
Subject: Fwd: copyright infringement

They now claim copyrights over the Book of the Law!

 
 > From: Adrian Leverkuhn 
 > To: <...@...COM.BR>; 
 > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:02 PM
 > Subject: copyright infringement
 > c...@....COM.BR
 > ... Informática Ltda
 > Rua ...
 >
 > Ordo Templi Orientis
 > (a not for profit religious corporation)
 > PO Box 684098
 > Austin TX 78768
 > oto_legal_department@mac.com
 > (1) (512) 731-3193
 >
 > September 5, 2002
 >
 > by email (a copy was also sent to ...)
 >
 > Re: Abuse of copyright at in violation of Brazilian law and the DMCA at
 >
 > http://www.....com.br/horus
 >
 >        which gives the following infringing listings:
 >
 >        "Liber Al vel Legis - o Livro da Lei " which accesses
 >
 >               http://www.....com.br/horus/liberal.zip
 >
 >        "O Porquê e como do Êxtase - Aleister Crowley, tradução Dom
 > Marcelo Santos" which accesses
 >
 >               http://www.....com.br/horus/extase.zip
 >
 >        "Liber II - Texto de Crowley" which accesses
 >
 >               http://www.....com.br/horus/liber2.zip
 >
 >        "Rituais da 1ª  tríade da O.T.O. - de Frater Baphomet XIº" [=
 > Aleister Crowley] which accesses the file
 >
 >               http://www.....com.br/horus/1triade.zip
 >
 >
 >
 > Dear Sir or Madam
 >
 > Ordo Templi Orientis is the exclusive owner of copyrights of Aleister
 > Crowley (British author, 1875-1947), and I am authorized to act in this
 > matter.
 >
 > This is to give formal written notice to your company that your server
 > contains infringements of copyrights we exclusively control, in the form
 > of unauthorized Portuguese translations of material, listed above, that
 > is copyrighted material owned by our organization.
 >
 > We have determined that these infringements are in violation of
 > Brazilian copyright law. We assume that your terms of service are in
 > compliance with Brazilian law and industry standards, and prohibit
 > unauthorized copyright infringement. We respectfully demand that it be
 > removed from your server immediately.
 >
 > The use of the material infringed has never been authorized by Ordo
 > Templi Orientis (a California not-for-profit corporation), and that the
 > work is not in the public domain in Brazil.
 >
 > We have a UK High Court judgment proving that our organization owns the
 > copyrights of the English author Aleister Crowley, who wrote the
 > above-cited material. We also have an earlier US Federal Court decision
 > that upholds our ownership  of the copyrights. We vigorously defend our
 > intellectual property
 > rights,  in whatever country they are infringed.
 >
 > If you or your attorneys wish to have copies of our court decisions, we
 > can have our attorneys send copies by mail or fax.
 >
 > As this is a hostile infringment, we anticipate that the infringing
 > party will try to post this again, once it is apparent the work is
 > removed. If you can cancel any membership privileges held by the
 > infringer this might make future problems less likely. It appears that
 > the material was posted by a Marcelo Santos, who is a known past
 > infringer of our copyrights.
 >
 > The information in this notification is true and accurate.
 >
 > Sincerely,
 >
 > /S/
 >
 > Adrian Leverkuhn
 > Assistant Secretary
 > Ordo Templi Orientis




 (2)
 Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:38:01 -0700
 To: WurDan@....
 From: Bill Heidrick
 Subject: Re: Liber AL

 93 Aleisterion,

 >I wrote you a letter in 1989 e.v. requesting from you permission to
 >quote from The Book of the Law. You were very kind and stated: "Liber
 >AL vel Legis, The Book of the Law, is in the public domain. You may
 >print it or quote it to your heart's content." Thank you for this; but
 >as I am writing material, and frequently need to quote from the Book
 >as Crowley did, I must ask you if this permission is still good. I
 >don't want to get into trouble and merely want to help Thelema, and
 >promulgate The Book of the Law.
 It's still ok. There have been changes in copyright law, and Liber AL
 is now considered back in copyright to a certain extent, variable from
 country to country and somewhat dependant on the edition used for the
 quoting. We favor free quoting, even when Liber AL is not public domain
 these days.
 93 93/93