[Nettime-bold] Update on Lawsuit against Leonardo Arts Group

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@transmediale.de>]

From: "roger malina" <rmalina@prontomail.com>
Date: Wed, May 9, 2001, 7:04 pm
Leonardo Electronic Almanac                 VOLUME 9, NO. 2


><Update on Lawsuit against Leonardo Arts Group >
>
>Roger Malina, Chair, Leonardo/ISAST. E-mail: < leo@mitpress.mit.edu >
>9 March 2001
>
>I regret to inform you that the lawsuit by Transasia against the non-profit
>arts
>group Leonardo has not yet been resolved and will not come to trial until
late
>April 2001. The matter continues to consume large amounts of our energy and
>resources.
>
>Transasia and the venture capital group Leonardo Finance have sued
Association
>Leonardo in France for a million dollars in damages, claiming lost business
>because search engines often retrieve our Web sites rather that theirs.
>Leonardo
>Finance claims to have obtained a French trademark recently on the word
>Leonardo, which we have now requested be overturned because of our prior
>use in
>the publication of the art journal Leonardo since 1967 (we note that a
similar
>affair has been brought to a successful conclusion by the etoy art group).
>
>The trial was originally scheduled to be held in December 2000 but at the
>request of the litigants, Transasia, the trial was delayed because the
>litigants
>informed the judge that they were not ready to argue the case at that time.
>
>We note that the search engine www.google.com continues to list our Web sites
>high on their search.
>
>All e-mails received by Transasia and Leonardo Finance from supporters of the
>Leonardo network have been deposited as evidence with the judge by Leonardo
>Finance.
>
>Leonardo continues to solicit donations for its Leonardo Legal Defense
Fund to
>allow us to successfully fight this absurd case.
>
>An auction of a donated work by pioneering art and technology artist Sonia
>Sheridan will be held at the end of March through ebay. Also to be
>auctioned on
>ebay are a hat and scarf knitted from wool shorn form the Leonardo Ram. The
>Leonardo Ram was named "Leonardo" by Harry Koenig in support of the Leonardo
>Legal Defense Fund. Further information on the ebay auction can be found on
>the
>Leonardo Legal Defense Fund site at:
>< http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/lawsuit.html >



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