Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.censorship From: grady@netcom.com (Grady Ward) Subject: The 'ho of babble-on RETURNS Message-ID: Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 04:13:58 GMT Lines: 91 From hkk Mon Mar 11 19:03:07 1996 Return-Path: Received: by netcom21.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom) id SAA29325; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 18:58:24 -0800 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 18:58:23 -0800 (PST) From: Helena Kobrin Subject: Re: Your Violation of Intellectual Property Rights To: grady@netcom.com Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R March 11, 1996 VIA E-MAIL AND CERTIFIED U.S. MAIL Mr. Grady Ward 3449 Martha Court Arcata, CA 95521 Re: Your Violation of Intellectual Property Rights Dear Mr. Ward: I obviously do not need any introduction, as you know who I am. I have seen your posting to alt.religion.scientology, soliciting copies of a NOTs pack to be sent to your house. I am writing to put you formally on notice that the contents of the NOTs pack is copyrighted, confidential, unpublished materials, owned by my client, Religious Technology Center, which constitute trade secrets under the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA), as ruled in Bridge Publications, Inc. v. Vien, 827 F.Supp. 629, 633 (S.D.Cal. 1993). That pack has only left the premises of an advanced Church of Scientology through theft. All copies of that pack have been ordered impounded by courts in the United States and Europe. Therefore, any copies which still exist in unauthorized hands are the fruit of that theft and have been made and distributed in violation of court orders. You are mistaken in your apparent notion that not having signed a confidentiality agreement insulates you from liability for trade secret misappropriation. Under the UTSA and case law interpreting that Act, misappropriation includes acquiring a trade secret of another with knowledge of the confidential and misappropriated status of the trade secret, or from or through a person having a duty to the owner of the trade secret. It also includes innocent acquisition--which yours could not possibly be- -if notice is received afterwards. You have clearly been on notice both before and after any such acquisition of these materials. You are hereby again put on notice that your *acquisition* of any copies of the NOTs pack is a trade secret misappropriation. Additional acts taken by you may well also constitute copyright infringement of these materials. Your derogatory remarks concerning me and my clients are uncalled for and libelous. They do not change the fact that you are violating the law. Any further attempts to violate the law will result in appropriate action. If you fail to heed this warning, you act at your own peril. Very truly yours, Helena K. Kobrin I presume my anonymous correspondents obtain their documents legally. Relying upon advice form a *proven* liar like yourself would be not prudent, eh? When your don't have your hands -- er mouth -- full from oral advice to criminal perpetrator Eugene Martin Ingram, please tell the Napoleon of Nutz Miscavige that he and Rinder can't do a damn thing about this wog in Power. You Helena Kobrin are destined to end up in Eugene's stable when you fail yet again to be at cause over a.r.s. We all fervently hope that as you beg Ingram not to treat you like his other "service providers" that you will regret your life as a 'ho for a criminal cult.