Cease and Desist from SORBS
Al
taking issue with various aspects of www.dnsbl.com and the measurement
of SORBS effectiveness. I don't know why, but he took that page down
off his site. I cached it on my own site, here:
http://dnsblresourcedata.googlepages.com/criticismfromsorbs
Today, I received the following email, assumably due to the caching of
that page. I'm not going to respond to him, except through counsel as
needed. I'm sharing this here and elsewhere, based on the same reason
that one would post a "cartooney" threat -- when one takes it to the
realm of legal threats, one loses the opportunity to keep it off the
record.
(He, or somebody else claiming to represent SORBS, also filed a DMCA
takedown request against that page. I filed a counter notice.)
I've munged email addresses out of courtesy, below.
From: Matthew <matthew>
Date: Oct 19, 2007 8:44 AM
Subject: NOTICE 19 Oct 2007
To: Al <aiverson>
You are violating my copyright. No further warnings will be issued,
cease and desist.
As I know you're an individual that will try to ignore the law I give
fair warning with an excerpt from the Attorney General on Copyright:
Is Australian copyright material protected overseas?
International treaties
Australia is a party to a number of international copyright treaties
and
conventions including:
* Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic
Works
(Berne Convention)
* World Trade Organisation /Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of
Intellectual Property Rights /(TRIPS Agreement)
* International Convention for the Protection of Performers,
Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations (Rome
Convention), and
* Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against
Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms (Geneva Phonograms
Convention).
Bilateral agreements between Australia and other countries
Australia is party to bilateral trade agreements with some other
countries, including the United States, Singapore and Thailand. These
trade agreements can include provisions on protection of copyright.
For
example, the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement concluded in
2004 contains extensive obligations on both countries regarding the
protection and enforcement of copyright.
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