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Zenon Panoussis - 24.06.2002 15:16
Indymedia refuses insight in the Deutsche Bahn lawsuit
I just phoned Klaas Bischop, Indymedia´s lawyer in the Deutche Bahn case. The discussion went more or less like this:
ZP: Good afternoon, would it be possible to get a copy of the file in the case from you?
KB: No. I have an obligation to my client, as well as by the bar rules, to keep it secret.
ZP: Would you please do me the favour to ask your client whether they would be willing to give me a copy?
KB: I don´t see any reason to do that?
ZP: One reason is that this case is terribly important for the Internet in general. Another reason is that your client might actually *want* to give insight in the case. Is it really too much to ask from you that you *ask* your client?
KB: I don´t see any reason to do that and I think that we can regard this discussion as closed.
ZP: Fine then, I do not regard the discussion as closed, but will gladly continue it in public, on Indymedia itself.
Now then, this case has just set a very severe and unwelcome precedent for the Internet community, or at least the Dutch part of it. Is there any particular reason why I, or anybody, cannot get a copy of the file that affects everybody´s rights? Is there any particular reason to keep it secret, except perhaps to conceal the possible blunders of Klaas Bischop himself?
I am willing to pay for the copies, if that is the problem. Otherwise I am looking forward to an explanation from Indymedia itself why this file needs to be kept secret.
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| Read more about: media | | supplements | | | Correction | Rejo Zenger - 24.06.2002 15:29
>I just phoned Klaas Bischop, Indymedia´s lawyer in the Deutche Bahn case [..]
Klaas Bischop is Deutsche Bahn´s lawyer, not Indymedia´s (which is Alberdingk Thijm).
E-Mail: rejo@sisterray.xs4all.nl
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| | | 24.06.2002 15:40
Duh. That explains it. Like cient, like lawyer. Let me start again.
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