Mise en demeure & conciliation

OK, c'était une mauvaise blague très élaborée... OK nous avons enfreint quelques règles du poisson d'avril... mais il a tellement bien fonctionné que nous nous en mordons presque les doigts. Nous espérons que nous n'avons bouleversé personne ou causé trop de réactions alarmistes... (genre sauvegarder les 10000 photos de la galerie sur votre disque dur).

Warner n'a pas envoyé de mise en demeure, ni à microcuts ni aux autres sites qui participaient à l'opération (musecast.co.uk, musewiki.org, Forum officiel, musesyndrome.com et muselive.com). Nous aimerions nous excuser auprès des personnes qui nous ont supportés et envoyé des mots d'encouragement. Ci-dessous, la note originale pour ceux qui n'auraient pas visité le site en ce dimanche 1er Avril.

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Nous avons reçu en début de journée une mise en demeure de Warner Music exigent la suppression - sous 7 jours - de tout contenu soumis aux droits d'auteur à savoir mp3, photographies, vidéos, tablatures etc... ce qui prive microcuts de la majorité de son contenu.

Warner a déjà eu gain de cause auprès de Youtube, Myspace et ne semble pas vouloir s'arrêter là... Nous essaierons de contacter Tom K. et le groupe afin de savoir s'ils sont au courant de la situation et si la fermeture du site peut être évitée par le soutien des officiels. Quoiqu'il en soit nous devrons prendre une décision en début de semaine concernant l'avenir incertain de microcuts.

[maj] Message de Tom Kirk:

Hi there. Yeah bad news the email is legit Warner are really serious about cutting down on these copyright violations. Obviously the band really aren't happy about this and tried to get this to not happen but a contractual clause is that Warner have the copyrights to this stuff and we can't get around it. I know it's a pain to do all that editing so just do it when you guys have the time. Cheers. Tom Kirk

Ci-dessous une partie du document que nous avons reçu:

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It has been brought to the attention of Warner Music Inc. that the website microcuts.net - microcuts.org - microcuts.info with the IP addresses of 213.186.33.18 is conducting unauthorised activities which infringes certain copyrights and trademarks that are owned by Warner Music Inc.

Warner Music Inc. currently owns the trademark related to the term “Muse”. On the 3rd February 2007 this trademark was extended to include a number of additional classes. One of these is a Class 42 which protects the use of the term in relation to Internet Domain Names. To protect the integrity of the Muse brand we will now be actively pursuing legal actions to ensure that the use of these domain names are relinquished. Other Muse related terms also covered under this act are [...] “Micro Cuts”, “Muscle Museum” [...]

Warner Music Inc. also owns the international copyright to the following, but not limited to, Muse related forms of content: digital media; lyrics; tablature; visual likeness. These copyrights are being deliberately flouted on a large scale and are damaging the integrity of the intellectual property that we own and have invested in. Warner Music enforces its intellectual property rights very aggressively by using every legal option available.

In order to promote a cooperative and beneficial relationship with fans, Warner Music prefers to send out written requests such as this first, rather than institute litigation or request that your ISP disable your website.

We therefore, without limiting any right, remedy or defence available to us, must ask that you comply with the following requests:

1. Relinquish the use of the Internet Domain Name microcuts.net, .org, .info

2. Remove any digital media (such as mp3 files, video files, streamed or downloadable) from your server that are copyrighted works of Muse. This includes all live material, studio material, and non-musical material (such as interviews)

3. Remove any instances where the lyrics of Muse are reproduced without the express written permission of Warner Music.

4) Remove any interpretations of the music of Muse provided in the form of tablature, song scores or “MIDI” files.

5) Remove all photographic material of the members of the band Muse that have been published without the express written permission of Warner Music.

We ask that you advise us within a period of seven (7) days of the date of receiving this notice on whether you intend to comply with our request so that we can determine whether legal action will be required beyond this point.

Thank you for your cooperation on this matter. Please contact us with any further questions at xxxx@xxxx.com

Regards,

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Warner Music xxxxxxxx,
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