Changes between Version 8 and Version 9 of legal


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Nov 3, 2009, 2:55:44 PM (14 years ago)
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Jamie McClelland
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    2121 * [http://shelljazzfest.com Shell Jazz Fest]. In May 2009, [http://priceofoil.org/ Oil Change International] began a campaign against the New Orleans Jazz Fest since their primary sponsor is Shell Oil (the company responsible for reaping incredible environmental and political destruction in Nigeria). The campaign came to an abrupt halt when their Internet Service Provider ([http://dreamhost.com Dream Host]), yanked their site after receiving a DMCA take down notice from the Jazz Fest Lawyers who complained about copyright infringement. Shell Guilty immediately joined May First/People Link and moved the site to our servers, after which we received a take down notice. Shell Guilty also contacted the [http://eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation], who wrote a defense of the site under the Fair Use doctrine. We sent the EFF letter to the Shell Jazz Fest lawyers indicating that we refused to take down the site. The lawyers then went to our upstream provider ([http://bandcon.com/ BandCon]) threatening them with legal action. We discussed the situation thoroughly with Shell Guilty indicating that we were willing to fight (including moving the site to a different colocation center). After much discussion Shell Guilty decided that is was not tactically strategic to fight this battle and instead decided to make modifications to the logo (which was the main point of contention between the lawyers).
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    23  * [http://theyesmen.org/chamber US Chamber of Commerce]. In October 2009, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sent Hurricane Electric a [https://support.mayfirst.org/raw-attachment/wiki/dmca/chamber-dmca-notice.pdf letter] complaining about a [http://www.chamber-of-congress.us website] spoofing the Chamber's obstructionism on climate change policies that was created by MF/PL member the Yes Men (read [http://theyesmen.org/chamber more about the spoof]). Hurricane Electric cut off our entire Internet connection or one and a half hours without notification. We fought back, regaining service and protecting the spoof site by moving it to another one of our colocation centers.
     23 * [http://theyesmen.org/chamber US Chamber of Commerce]. In October 2009, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sent Hurricane Electric a [https://support.mayfirst.org/raw-attachment/wiki/dmca/chamber-dmca-notice.pdf letter] complaining about a [http://www.chamber-of-congress.us website] spoofing the Chamber's obstructionism on climate change policies that was created by MF/PL member the Yes Men (read [http://theyesmen.org/chamber more about the spoof]). Hurricane Electric cut off our entire Internet connection or one and a half hours without notification. We fought back, regaining service and protecting the spoof site by moving it to another one of our colocation centers (hosting.com), which several days later forwarded another DMCA take notice to us. We have since moved the site to a third center where it remains online.