To make it faster to load and read,
I made a page for each "case":
Introduction
Copyright and copywrong
"Web piracy"
The N.E.T. Act in the United States
The Church of Scientology cases
The Shetland News hyperlink case
"The day the sites went out in Georgia"
The Digital Object Identifier
Music copyright on the Internet
Are they coming to take me away?
The most recent case
concerning journalists, January 1998
Webography (references)
Procedure (what I did)
When defectors from the Church of Scientology try to publish secret writings from the sect on the Internet, the church usually strikes back with the help of copyright laws. There is another example in Sweden, where a defector has handed in such a book to the Parliament, where all incoming documents become public documents. He did this to stir the debate and to make the contents known. There has been a discussion about whether the principle of access to public documents should be used in this way.
To make a long mess short: scientologists constantly requested to see the book, simply in order to keep it occupied so that no one else could read it. But this was completely futile since everyone could order cheap copies just by calling the office instead--SEK 1 per page if I'm not mistaken.
(It is very easy to find the Church of Scientology debate on the net, so I will not recommend any specific URLs. Just type "internet copyright" in a search engine of your choice and you will see what I mean. The facts above are simply what I knew already.)
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