FC: Link to Gary-Condit-with-axe art that Ebay removed

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:10:41 -0700
From: "Da'ud X Mohammed" <webmaster () ocnsignal com>
Organization: Oregon Coast News Signal
To: declan () well com
Subject: Re: FC: Ebay yanks Gary-Condit-with-axe art at congressman's request
References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010726112934.020ce810 () mail well com>

Hello Declan,

Here's a link to the "Social, Artistic & Political Commentary #9" collage

With peace

dxm


Subject:
          Re: Social, Artistic & Political Commentary #9
    Date:
          Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:42:40 EDT
   From:
          Triangle1 () aol com
      To:
          webmaster () ocnsignal com




In a message dated 7/26/01 3:37:36 PM, webmaster () ocnsignal com writes:

<< we'd like to post a link to "Social, Artistic & Political Commentary #9"
from Oregon Coast News Signal, and specifically from >>

You have my permission to link to my site page:
http://aleydesign.com/artpage.html


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Subject: RE: Ebay yanks Gary-Condit-with-axe art at congressman's request
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:04:47 -0700
Message-ID: <76CC8C772206C444AE7FADA043EC0657462E () mailexchange xq com>
From: "Clinton D. Fein" <clinton.fein () apollomedia com>
To: <declan () well com>

Morning Declan:

This is probably a losing battle and argument for the congressman. The
URL below links to what is fast becoming a very popular card on
annoy.com.


Were it not for Fox News, Page Three of the Sun or the New York Post,
News Corp might have a more legitimate complaint.

Warning. It's not particularly pretty!
http://annoy.com/scripts/censure/thumb.asp?nail=346


Clinton

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From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei () rsasecurity com>
To: "'declan () well com'" <declan () well com>
Subject: RE: Ebay yanks Gary-Condit-with-axe art at congressman's request
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:04:04 -0400


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> From:      Declan McCullagh[SMTP:declan () well com]
> http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-000060870jul26.story?coll
>
> EBay Pulls Art Item at Request of Condit Internet:
> Congressman's office says his intellectual property rights
> were violated in collage about intern's disappearance.
>
        [...]

> "We were contacted by a representative from the
> congressman's office in Washington. . . . He believed the
> item was 'a violation of the congressman's right of
> publicity, based upon the use of his name or image,' " said
> EBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove.
>
So, politicians now believe that they have a "right of publicity" ?!!

Things are worse than I thought - I guess attack ads cannot any
longer feature the name of the politicians they attack, nor their
images or utterances.

I can't see any way that the described painting cannot be
considered protected speech.

Peter Trei

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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:25:43 -0700
From: lizard <lizard () mrlizard com>
To: declan () well com
CC: politech () politechbot com
Subject: Re: FC: Ebay yanks Gary-Condit-with-axe art at congressman's request
References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010726112934.020ce810 () mail well com>

Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
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>
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:28:50 -0700
> From: "Jeffrey St. Clair" <sitka () home com>
> To: cp <counterpunch-list () counterpunch org>,
>          Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> Subject: eBay Yanks Bloody Condit Artwork
>
> http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-000060870jul26.story?coll
>
> EBay Pulls Art Item at Request of Condit Internet:
> Congressman's office says his intellectual property rights
> were violated in collage about intern's disappearance.
>
> By DAVID STREITFELD, TIMES STAFF WRITER

> "We were contacted by a representative from the
> congressman's office in Washington. . . . He believed the
> item was 'a violation of the congressman's right of
> publicity, based upon the use of his name or image,' " said
> EBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove.
>
Those who obsess over 'privacy laws' and 'the right to control your own
image' should carefully consider the free speech implications of cases
such as this.

(It's also worth noting that the same Naderites who demand increased
privacy laws ALSO want increased public access to political spending
records, to the point of virtually banning all anonymous political
speech. This contradiction never seems to register with them. (Which
shocks me not at all, since contradiction is the only constant of the
radical left -- who else could proclaim to be 'anti-globalist' and in
favor of national self-determination, and yet condemn the US for not
joining the Kyoto protocols? The US's refusal to place global interests
ahead of national self-interest seems to be the essence of the
anti-globalist philosophy, yet, they condemn us for it! Go fig.)

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