John Farnham to sue s11 (August 2000)

*NB. In the interests of setting a good example, the following news posting has been corrected by the lecturer. (Spelling, punctuation, grammar, use of apostrophes, abbreviations, capitalization etc. all contained errors.)

• The news posting:
  
  John Farnham to sue s11 for using his song YOU'RE THE VOICE as the s11 theme song.
  
  Record label gives the s11.org web site until 5pm thursday the 24th of August to remove link to the artist's song.
  
  After a nation wide song contest - YOU'RE THE VOICE was chosen as the S11 THEME SONG to be sung by thousands outside Crown Casino [in Melbourne] during the WEF protests.
  
  s11.org put a picture of John and a link to his song on their site's home page.
  
  Lawyers for John Farhnam's record label, BMG, have given the s11.org web site until 5pm Thursday the 24th of August to remove the link to the artist's song and remove John's image.
  
  "We are not infringing copywrite: the record label does not own copywrite of the image the real audio file of YOU'RE THE VOICE is not held on our servers - it is external."
  
  
• The lawyer's email is below:
  
  >LINK:
  >http://www.s11.org
  
  >Dear Sir or Madam
  >
  >We have been to your website www.s11.org/home ("Website"). Embodied
  >on the Website as the "S11 Theme Song" is John Farnham's sound recording
  >of the song "You're The Voice" ("Recording").
  >
  >BMG Australia Limited owns copyright in the Recording and hereby
  >instructs you to remove the link to the Recording from your Website
  >by 5.00pm (Melbourne time) on 24 August 2000.
  >
  >You are hereby advised that you are not authorised to use, reproduce
  >or link to any images of or recordings by John Farnham on your Website.
  >
  >BMG asserts that any such unauthorised use of John Farnham's image
  >and/or recordings implies an endorsement of your organisation, which
  >is not correct.
  >
  >Should you not comply with the request to remove the link to the BMG
  >owned Recording and the photo of John Farnham your Website, you are
  >advised that BMG may in its discretion commence proceedings against
  >you in the Federal Court of Australia for infringement of copyright
  >(including a claim for costs) without further notice to you.
  >
  >Yours faithfully
  >Business Affairs
  >BMG Australia Limited

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