FC: Scientology wins copyright victory in Swedish court ruling

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 01:30:27 +0100
From: Hinde ten Berge <hinde () xs4all nl>
Organization: Embryo
To: declan () well com
Subject: Scientology vs. Panoussis

Declan,

Even though this has been posted on /. already I thought this is
important info for the FC mailinglist. Talking about Censorship.

Cheers, Hinde.

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We just received ruling of the Stockholm court of appeals,
Svea Hovrätt, Stockholm, in the case of Scientology vs
Panoussis.

Against all our expectations, Zenon has lost on all counts.
PLus, he needs to pay another NLG 100,000 / USD 40,000 for
lawyer's fees.

There is a minority opinion from one of the judges; she
regards the OTs to have been legally published. But of
course, a minority opinion won't help him right now. Zenon
has already appealed to the Supreme Court.



Reports of the Jan. 2001 hearings in Scientology vs Panoussis
are webbed at:

http://www.spaink.net/varia/nkw-20010117.html     - Dutch
http://www.spaink.net/english/zenon-20010117.html - English


> http://www.slashdot.org/

> Your Rights Online: Scientology vs. Panoussis Ruling

> [The Courts] Posted by michael on Fri March 09, 9:26

> from the ground-under-the-wheels-of-justice dept.

> The Swedish High Court has rejected the appeal in the Zenon Panoussis case,
> where Panoussis was accused of distributing certain documents of the Church
> of Scientology in violation of their copyright. The case has been ongoing
> for some time and has more twists and turns than I can possibly summarize
> here, but we can cut to the chase: Panoussis lost, and lost big. There is
> apparently one more court in Sweden which can be appealed to, so it's not
> entirely over yet. Here's the report from the trial. The submitter provided
> many more links and information, included below.




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