Correspondence - National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Suing me/ETLD for pointing out an existing YouTube movie???
This we had to explore... Go to MY e-mail earlier June 15 that started it all (underneath)

Richard Reekers
June 21. 2007  - so far nothing.
all following correspondence will be posted here (newest on top) as well at Nettime.Org (oldest underneath).
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Reekers
To: Michael W. Davidson
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 9:45 AM
Subject: who ownes what ? Re: Revoke, try another or trial? - Re: The powers of...

Dear mister Michael Davidson and others,
 
You can't send me an "invoice" for a product you don't have the powers of; KewlTV is the user, YouTube the intermediate. ETLD.ORG is - as a secondary intermediate for showing the movie - depended on those higher two.
 
An besides - somebody else pointed out to me - who ones what?
 
 
Some other links for your quest

I hope I have given enough information or better: new insights and sign (2x), 

 

With Regards,  

 

 

Richard Reekers

 

CC - ETLD.org


----- Original Message -----
From: Michael W. Davidson
To: 'Richard Reekers'
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 7:26 PM
Subject: RE: Revoke, try another or trial? - Re: The powers of... You(Tube) - a triple

Mr. Reekers,

 

Thanks for alerting me to the You Tube posting.  This will be the 12th video that we will have removed from You Tube.

 

Note that where this material is placed is not my call and the university feels that the Molecular Expressions website is the proper place for this tutorial.  I note that you haven’t removed the video from your website, and judging from your comments below, that probably won’t happen without some type of legal stimulation.  I’ll instruct the Florida State University Research Foundation to send you an invoice for $100,000.00 US, which will enable you to keep the video on the site for a 12-month period.  Note that once the invoice is issued, it will automatically go to collections after 30 days.

 

Regards---Mike

Michael W. Davidson
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
The Florida State University
1800 East Paul Dirac Drive
Tallahassee, Florida 32310
Tel: 850-644-0542
Fax: 850-644-8920
Web: http://www.microscopy.fsu.edu


From: Richard Reekers
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 10:18 AM
To: Michael W. Davidson
Subject: Revoke, try another or trial? - Re: The powers of... You(Tube) - a triple

 

Dear Mister Davidson,

 

I am sorry to hear that you can not see the communicative powers of a medium like YouTube for your organisation. 

 

Besides that: threatening me/ETLD.org with legal actions is not only old fashioned in that perspective, but you also do that at the wrong tree. You should be turning your complaint either to YouTube itself or the person who put this home made video online. The latter you'll find from this page on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5EUtVcfAOE

 

I hope I have given enough information or better: new insights and sign, 

 

With Kind Regards,  

www.etld.org

 

 

Richard Reekers

 

CC - Nettime.Org | "KewlTV"

 


----- Original Message -----

From: Michael W. Davidson

To: 'Richard Reekers'

Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 2:30 PM

Subject: RE: The powers of... You(Tube) - a tripleA plea for a likewise product

 

Mr. Reekers,

 

Not only is your copy of our interactive tutorial not optimal, it is a direct violation of our copyright.  Please remove it from your website immediately.  Note that while we don’ have Internet enforcement powers in the Netherlands, the university will still be able to bill you for this infringement and has legal recourse through the Dutch court system via our attorney based in Amsterdam.  Typically, the fee for unauthorized posting of this material is $100K (US).  I appreciate your enthusiasm for the material, but I have to report the infringement to the university.  Again, please remove this material from your website.

 

Regards---Mike

 

Michael W. Davidson
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
The Florida State University
1800 East Paul Dirac Drive
Tallahassee, Florida 32310
Tel: 850-644-0542
Fax: 850-644-892
Web: http://www.microscopy.fsu.edu


From: Richard Reekers
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 3:43 AM
To: davidson{@}magnet.fsu.edu
Subject: The powers of... You(Tube) - a tripleA plea for a likewise product

 

Dear mister Michael Davidson,

 

A plea to put a good version of The Powers Of Ten online, for instance at YouTube.

And please to do it yourself; interested people go directly to your site.

At this moment I do it in this way - but by all means, it's not optical optimal at all:

http://www.newday.nl/webtv/beyond.html

 

Hope you see sense in this - the web has changed since you put PoT online (and linked to it from the year 2000 - www.etld.nl/englinks.html - 'evolution')

 

With the best regards & purposes,

ETLD Group

 

Richard Reekers
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Reekers
To: copyright{@}youtube.com
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 11:32 PM
Subject: Can they sue me for appointing towards existing movie?

Dear YouTube-people,
 
Since earlier this week I run a non-profit website to appoint the e-public towards - in my view - beautiful and remarkable contributions put online at YouTube
 
This morning I placed the following movie on top:
http://www.newday.nl/webtv/beyond.html
 
Please read what I wrote in the middle colum and follow the link to the evolving correspondence with the webmaster of the original content. 
 
My question to you: can they directly turn to me - as a third party in a legal sense besides YouTube and the uploader?
 
I've already notified the uploader who goes under the name "KewTV" - his/her profile page you will find via the correspondence page.
 
I definitely won't remove this Tube after such a reply on my initial and well-meant e-mail. Outrageous and besides all reason.
 
I'll hope to hear from you soon, until then, I sign,
 
With Kind Regards,
ETLD.ORG
 
 
Richard Reekers