RE: The Economist and e-Archiving

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

So I guess this means the winner re-writes history ?Or maybe just deletes
the facts. Sounds like each and every country will have to write its own
laws to protect the continued existence of what was published.

Why should the French courts be able to tell a UK publication to delete? 

Why would the EU want its own history deletable? 

I won but you can't see why I won? Or I won and you will be erased from
history? Will our cultural patrimony disappear under the guise of legal
rulings from around the world...?

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Okerson
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Sent: 6/16/03 8:45 PM
Subject: The Economist and e-Archiving

Readers of this list may be interested in another example of withdrawal
from an e-archive, from the June 7th issue of The Economist, p. 67:

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In LARGE BOLD letters occuping about the bottom 1/4 of the page:

"In a judgment dated May 23rd 2003, the section of the criminal court of
Paris dealing with media condemned Mr Emmott, editor-in-chief of a weekly,
The Economist, for having defamed publicly Credit Lyonnais and its
chairman, Monsiur Peyrelevade, by publishing, in the edition of May
19th-25th 2001, an article on pages 82 and 83 entitled "The scandal
continues" and a cover line "Credit Lyonnais, new revelations", which
implicated the bank and M. Peyrelevade."

Then, in a very small font at the bottom of the page:

"Editors note:  This statement is published by order of the French court.  
Mr. Peyrelevade brought two writs for defamation against me: the first,
for two articles on January 13th 2001, "A new scandal at Credit Lyonnais"  
and "The curse continues," was rejected.  The above verdict, for our third
article, also awarded damages of Euro-3,000 ($3384) to each of Mr.  
Peyrelevade and Credit Lyonnais, and Euro-1,500 in costs.  In view of the
ruling, the article "The scandal continues" has been removed from our
online archive.  The first two articles remain there, as do a fourth
article, "Management by committee" (July 14th 2001) and a fifth,
"Questions, questions" (July 13th 2002), in respect of which Mr.  
Peyrelevade has not sued."

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