ELL: Copyright vs Evidence of Hate Literature Against the Indigenous

[Matthew McDaniel]

Dear Friends of the Akha And All Indigenous Peoples:

Today I was notified by Ronald Rockney of the Jack Chick Tract and
Publishing company that we are in violation of copy right law and must
take down our copies of the racist tract called "The True Path" which we
have shown on our web site as a case of "hate" literature.

We have been informed by the site administrator that we must take down
the pictures of the Jack Chick publication in question. "The True Path"
portrayed American Indians and indigenous peoples as smelly, dirty,
drunkards headed for hell.

We have done so.

We have replaced the page with a edited version, without the pictures.

http://www.akha.org/jackchick.htm

We are checking what legal options we can persue regarding Jack Chick
and his pubication.

But let us look at what is going on here.

Jack Chick publications is using copyright law to protect publicity from
occuring via the web as to the offensive nature of the material they are
publishing, which could very easily be classified as hate literature.

This is Ronald's email address.  His original email is below, as well as
also now posted on the web page.

Ronald Rockney <rockney at chick.com>

He is not at all concerned about the REASON we have posted this little
publication to our web site.

This, my friends is religious fascism at its best.

We need to explain to both Ronald and the indigenous community what this
is about, that these sort of things are central to the indigenous cause,
not side shows.  That these racist blocks in the wall are what give
people permission to oppose the indigenous.

At any rate, consider very seriously that these publications up on the
website
were there as evidence of what is being done to the indigenous, and
these
racist evangelicals believe that if they enforce the white copyright
laws then
they also effectively hide the evidence.

I welcome your input into this matter.

It has been suggested that we can put together a class action lawsuit
against Chick Publications, if anyone has comments on this.  It would
also require that they formally recall the tract, that they make public
broadcast and printed apologies in some major media to the Native
Nations for this portrayal.

At least write this fellow below and give him a piece of your mind.

I believe there are other locations where someone has posted this
literature.  Please contact me.

Matthew




Ronald Rockney <rockney at chick.com>

Ronald Rockney wrote:

> Dear Mr. McDaniel,
>
> I have just been made aware of the existence of images copyrighted by
Jack
> T. Chick which are being displayed on your website, on page
> http://www.akha.org/jackchick.htm.  Chick Publications is the
exclusive
> licensed publisher for Mr. Chick's work.  Our licensing agreement
requires
> us to defend his copyright, and we will do so.
>
> I must ask you to remove the images you are displaying from his tract,
"The
> True Path" from your website.  You are welcome to comment on the
tract, and
> can link to it on our site it you wish, but it is not permissible to
serve
> it up on your own website.
>
> I would appreciate hearing from you soon, and thank you in advance for
your
> cooperation.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ronald Rockney, Treasurer
> Chick Publications, Inc.



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