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From: 	Lowell Whitaker 
Subject: 	GOT SIMONE ADDRESS THIS TIME CONFIRMED!
Date: 	Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:38:37 -0500  (Fri, 15:38 EST)
 
SIMONE BUCHANAN
I.C.S & ASSOC. PTY LTD
Lvl 5 62 Clarence St
Sydney NSW 2000

Simone now a mother!

Simone gave birth to a baby boy called "Tane" in 1998!

Emails From Simone

I received this mail in July 2000. I sent a short reply with a couple of friendly questions but I never received a reply back. I assume she must be busy with Tane.

      Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:38:00 -0400 (EDT)
      From: [deleted]@aol.com
      Subject: Your web page
      To: torsten@csse.monash.edu.au
      X-Mailer: AOL 4.0.i for Windows 95 sub 126

      Hi there it is Simone Buchanan here. I have just viewed your pages on
      me and thought you might like an update! I had a baby called Tane in
      1998 and blissfully took two years off work to give him all my
      attention , apart from the odd appearance here and there. I moved to
      Melbourne a couple of months ago and have been working on Blue
      Heelers which is great. My email adress is [deleted]@aol.com

At the end of 1996 I received email from Simone. It appears she and her agent were browsing the WWW and discovered my page. Here is what she had to say:

     Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 13:56:24 +1000
     To: torsten@cs.monash.edu.au
     Subject: A message from Simone Buchanan

     Now that Pacific Drive is on the internet, your appreciation page has been
     discovered.  Over to Simone -

     Well, well, well.  When did the front page get changed from "awful" to
     Australian show PACIFIC DRIVE?  (PS I saw awful there last week - Simone's
     publicist)  You should get a link to the PAC DRIVE page -
     www.village.com.au/pacificdrive.
     I'm still in shock at what I've just seen.
     In the future, if you want to check any details with me, you can email me
     care of the pacdrive site.  I'll be watching you!!!
     Thank you for your obvious enthusiasm - I guess I should be flattered!

     Simone

I replied, asking her for information for the page. This was just before Christmas 1996. I received this reply:

      Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 09:07:22 +1000
      To: Torsten Seemann 
      Subject: Re: Msg for: Simone Buchanan

      We'be been on holidays for the past month, so Simone will only be
      getting your email today - she is not holding off answering you! 
      We'll talk soon Andrew

Copyright violation

I have been asked (read "ordered") by Karen-Jane Eyre (Editor-in-chief, Studio Magazines) to remove the scans from Black+White magazine due to it being a violation of their (or the photographer Andrew Steinman's) copyright.

Here was her original email:

      Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 14:59:45 +1000
      From: "Internet Mac" <ed@studio.com.au>
      Subject: Simone Buchanan
      To: torsten@cs.monash.edu.au
      X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express for Macintosh - 4.01 (295)

      Dear Torsten,

      Please be advised that we strongly consider your usage of Simone Buchanan's
      images on your website as a severe breach of our copyright.

      Your failure to remove the said images from your site will result in
      immediate legal action.

      Please treat this correspondence as a letter of demand.

      Yours faithfully,

      Karen-Jane Eyre
      Editor

As this was very unclear, here was my reply:

      Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:52:37 +1000
      From: Torsten Seemann 
      Subject: Re: Simone Buchanan
      To: Internet Mac <ed@studio.com.au>
      X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us

      Dear Karen-Jane Eyre,

      > Please be advised that we strongly consider your usage of Simone Buchanan's
      > images on your website as a severe breach of our copyright.
      > Your failure to remove the said images from your site will result in
      > immediate legal action.
      > Please treat this correspondence as a letter of demand.

      You have not identified who you are in any way whatsoever.

      The images on my site come from a large variety of sources and I doubt you
      could claim copyright to all of them.

      Your email has been too vague and unprofessional for me to take it seriously
      at this point.

      --Torsten

And her response...

      From: "Internet Mac" 
      Subject: Images of Simone Buchanan from Black+white #21 by Andrew Steinman
      To: torsten@cs.monash.edu.au
      X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express for Macintosh - 4.01 (295)

      Dear Torsten,

      Please be advised that your failure to remove the above images from your
      website will result in immediate legal action.

      Karen-Jane Eyre
      Editor-in-chief
      Studio Magazines

As a result I have removed the links to the images.

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