tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 23 01:48:02 1997
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Re: Online dictionaries and such
- From: Mark A Mandel <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Online dictionaries and such
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 23:12:57 -0500 (EST)
While not directly relevant to tlhIngan Hol, this is further information
on an issue that has been raised here with respect to what people make
available on the 'Net or on the Web. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU POST!!
I have taken the following from Science Fiction Weekly on-line, at
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/news.html
(The dateline says it's over a week old. I subscribe to their email
notification service; the announcement of this issue just arrived this
evening, with an apology for the disruption of their usual biweekly
schedule.)
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Science Fiction Weekly
January 13, 1997, Vol. 3, No. 1, Issue 37
Viacom continues to target Star Trek Web sites
Forget the Prime Directive...copyright and trademark violations
have become the big worry for the thousands of Star Trek fans who
operate Web sites dedicated to their favorite show. In December,
Viacom Inc. -- the parent company of Paramount -- continued to go
after Web sites such as Loskene's Tholian Web* that commit "clear
infringements of Paramount's rights" by posting movie scripts,
pictures, sound files and other material owned by Paramount
Picture Corp.
* http://www.loskene.com/
The targeted site owners received a letter from Viacom attorney
Mallory Levitt demanding they remove the offending material and
refrain from posting "any similar infringing material on the
Internet or any other on-line service in the future." While many
Web site owners speculate this is a blatant attempt by Viacom to
drive readers to the recently unveiled official Star Trek site on
the Microsoft Network, Viacom denies the charge.
"That's just not true," Viacom spokesperson Susan Duffy said.
"This is part of a general enforcement program that's been going
on for a few years, to protect our copyrights."
So far Viacom said it has contacted just "dozens out of thousands"
of Web sites and only plans to confront those that commit "the
most serious kinds of infringement." But while most sites have
complied with Viacom's demands, others remain openly defiant and
have mounted a counter-campaign that compares Paramount to the
Borg. They have even set up an Anti-Viacom Web page to rally
supporters.
Duffy said it's unclear at this point how Viacom will proceed
against those sites that refuse to remove the infringing material.
She added that Paramount and Viacom have the highest respect for
Star Trek fans and they are being "highly selective" in their
enforcement program.
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Here is one protest site:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/kevina/protest/
It lists a lot of information about the situation and the evolving wave of
protest, with many links.
TV Guide On-Line has an article titled
VIACOM TO TREKKERS: 'YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED'
(sorry, I've misplaced the URL) that lists another protest site:
http://www.stwww.com/viacom.html
run by Luca Sambucci, the 22-year-old webmaster of the massive
"Star Trek: WWW" site.
marqem, tlhIngan veQbeq la'Hom -- Heghbej ghIHmoHwI'pu'!
Subcmdr. Markemm, Klingon Sanitation Corps -- Death to Litterbugs!
( Mark A. Mandel )
Personal home page: http://world.std.com/~mam/