The World Trade Organization closes a critical Website, hundreds new develops

Gatt.org remains for the time being in the net Armin Medosch 20.11.2001 But no war around the anti- World Trade Organization Website In a confusion, which has apparently many participants however only few genuine "Player", and in which it concerned the threatened locking of the Parodie Site Gatt.org, for the time being cessation of hostilities is in-turned (see the World Trade Organization closes a critical Website, hundreds new develop ) D IE World trade organization (World Trade Organization) had communicated in application digitally of the Millennium copyright act to the Provider Verio that one of its by the use of Logos and photo their copyright hurts customers. Verio placed thereupon the supposed operator of the Parodie Site gatt.org an ultimatum. But straight, as this was in the process being applied, Verio was pointed out that the Website is not gehostet at all by them and withdrew the ultimatum. Attentive on the changed circumstances Verio of the Sysadmin made walter Palmetshofer of Thing.net , where Gatt.org on own server is accommodated in CO-hosting. He finds that Verio behaved under the circumstances completely correctly. As commercial Provider must Verio evenly according to the rules of the DMCA play. Sometimes a reproach could one for blank Marks make, which needed first for a very long time, in order to react at all, then quite much eddy struck to make attentive in order to forget thereafter, when the threat already past was, whereupon, on the new fact situation. But on the part of RTMarks it meant opposite Telepolis, would be particularly because of a lack at resources. The new circumstances representation is already written, but one found still no time to bring it in circulation. Which it is also understandable if one considers that it concerns a small group scattered over several continents. Blank Mark had been offered in the meantime even already legal support. Still on Sunday a Posting on Slashdot provided for further zuspruch. But a reimpression of the Toywar is for the time being blown off. Also on the part of the World Trade Organization it concerned probably particularly the action of under-busy coworkers in the legal department. Stone of the impact for these seems to have been above all the use of the Logos and a photo of Mike of moorlands. To what extent the right to free expression of opinion and the nevertheless clearly recognizable circumstance that it concerns a Parodie, would have affected themselves in favor of RTMarks, would be to be clarified probably only before court. The World Trade Organization must decide now whether it wants to go into a new round.