last day of LJ?

so since renedeparade decided to file an LJ abuse report against me for copyright infringement, I might have my LJ suspended as of tomorrow.

The original email sent to me from the LJ abuse team tells me that I am in violation and I must either delete the post and file a counter claim.
If I don't, then my account will be suspended/deleted.

there's nothing within my original post that violates anyone's copyright. my words are my own as are my thoughts and opinions.
he had originally posted responses that i reposted after he deleted them. I  believe i have the right to repost these under the 'fair use' exemptions.

he said he didn't want people to read my lj and get a bad impression of him or his party. i never told people to boycott the GermanFetishBall nor did i ever say that the party was shitty.
he said he wanted to remove himself from any arguments and the name calling (i figure the best way to do that is to not post in the first place).

He's under the impression that LiveJournal has jurisdiction over posts and comments but in their Terms of Service, they state that they're not responsible for any content. They simply ask people in violation to delete their posts. There is no option to defend themselves simply by responding to their email. The only option to defend one's post means filing a counter and then wait for the original complainant to ante up.

(Basically I could start filing abuse reports for any/all of you and then LJ would tell you to delete or counter file. either way, your account with go down or the post will (though if you counter, the post can come back up again)). My only other option is to counter file.


"According to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), we are required to disable access to any URL that is reported to us as violating the copyright of another. The easiest way to do this is to have you delete the entire entry (which is necessary, since the comments in question form a part of that URL, and we must restrict access to that whole URL in order to comply with the DMCA). If you do not do this by the deadline, your account may be suspended until you agree to delete the entry. This ensures that we are in compliance with United States law.

...you do have the right to counter-notify if you feel the comments were reported in error, and your use of them falls under one of the provisions in the DMCA. If you would like to do this, please let us know and we will inform you of the information that is required in order to counter-notify. Filing a counter-notification indicates that you are willing to defend yourself in court against a charge of copyright infringement, and you may be bound by civil and possibly criminal penalties if you are found liable. Therefore, we strongly recommend you seek legal advice before filing a counter-notification.

Please note that even if you choose to counter-notify, you will still be required to delete the entry in question. However if, after 14 calendar days from the date of counter-notification, the reporting party does not press charges against you, you will be free to use the material in question ."

I did write back and ask if there were other options available to me such as temporarily making the entire post private for the interim as well as listing the 'fair use' info, but i've not gotten a response from that message yet.

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I'd love to see British Airways trying to file a copyright case against me if i posted a photo of their food and then mentioned how horrible it was. Next time anyone decides to post information or thoughts that contradict another person's then be prepared to jump through some hoops.


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hopefully before the end of today, i will have more stuff to post.
though i also wonder why i should bother if 6 years of postings are about to get tossed out the door.

Matthew Barney in Vienna

hmm.

might go check it out

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Drawing Restraint

KUNSTHALLE wien, hall 2
March 07th - June 08th, 2008



This exhibition was produced in cooperation with the Serpentine Gallery, London.

Matthew Barney is one of the best known artists of his generation. Born in 1976 in San Francisco, he studied Fine Arts at Yale University in the late 1980s. His multilayerd work has been rapidly acknowledged by the critique, foremost his Cremaster-cycle, which was produced between 1994 and 2002.

Designed to be a comprehensive „narrative sculpture", his artistic practice covers a varied range of artistic forms of expression, from film, photography and drawing to performance, installation and sculpture, which generate each other continually. His multi-part work cycles are described by the artist himself as meditation on the creative process. Athletics and biological laws provide the analogous model with which Barney makes an attempt to explain artistic production: the artist as athlete, creating form according to the principle of building up muscle, which only takes form in the struggle against resistance.

The exhibition of the Kunsthalle Wien in cooperation with the Serpentine Gallery in London focuses on the 15-part series Drawing Restraint which came about along this scaffolding of thought. In keeping with the artist's concept, it realizes the idea of the total work of art, whose connecting threads come together in his latest film production, Drawing Restraint 9 (2005), which is to be shown for the first time in Austria in the accompanying program. With Matthew Barney and his wife Björk in the main roles, the film tells a tragic love story set on a Japanese whaling ship. Using extensive technology, fittings and costumes it permits a mythical parallel world full of complex symbolism to arise, which finds an echo in the exhibition pieces as part of a hermetic system of meaning.

Matthew Barney received the Hugo-Boss-Prize in 1996. In 2002, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum organized an outstanding show of the entire Cremaster-cycle that traveled to Museum Ludwig Köln and Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris. Drawing Restraint was shown recently in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2005), in the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2005) and in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2006). The exhibition at the Kunsthalle Wien is a continuation of the joint work with Matthew Barney in 1997, 2000 and 2002, where works from the Cremaster cycle were presented in Vienna. In 2008, a new video work, Drawing Restraint 16, will be shown for the first time. Matthew Barney lives and works in New York.

Curator: Gerald Matt

http://www.mqw.at/index.php?page_id=155

moblog photos ...

so i uploaded more images to my MoBlog
http://kumimonster.tumblr.com

London to Dusseldorf, Essen, Koln, n lots o Vienna

Check out the GULASCH!!!
you want me to bring some back for you ynl ?

new HW latex

shot by the doleshcal in vienna.

This is more of the new leopard print stuff.
the print is within the latex so no rubbing off!

http://www.hwdesign.at

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dith pran

in 1975 the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia.
Dith Pran was the photojournalist who was portrayed by Haing Ngor in the movie The Killing Fields.
(Ngor won an academy award for his work in 1985 and in 1996, after surviving Pol Pot's regime, was killed in Los Angeles in a botched robbery).

I had remember hearing about the Khmer Rouge from my father when I was younger, but I never really took any interest until I saw the film.
I suppose I was too young to visualize it. Most of what I read was about WW2. Eventually it became one of my areas of interest as long as some other areas of genocide, military history, and war photography.

A couple of days ago I woke up and turned on the news to hear a small and brief mention of Dith Pran's death on March 30 due to pancreatic cancer.