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Holding back the legal expertise?
Carsten T. Rees 2008-Nov-15 11:16:00
Sorry again for this off-topic posting. I am ready to pay compensation in form of a glass
of good wine from our region, if a member of the WWP-Community should choose to call
me and drop by. And in case your are not upset by this off-topic posting, do not hesitate,
call anyway and drop by, but allow me some time to cool the white wine. On second
thought, let's not stop after one glass.
Now then back to serious business. Well not really seroius, but rather absurd and surreal,
a real good laugh after days of stress and distress:
A confused member of the ZKM-Friends list has forwarded a posting on this list from Mr.
Levy to me. I would like to cite the first two sentences:
"This is serious and extremely important: we are currently not allowed to?use the legal
expertise that we paid for until its status is cleared.
Anybody who had access to it as member of the task force, please refrain from using it or
distributing it."
What a complete bunch of rubbish and how extremely funny on the other hand.
I have had my second major battle with Mr. Levy on the question, how to proceed with the
expertise. Approximately two weeks before we received the expertise, I had suggested to
the Task-Force to reasses our situation and discuss, whether we should tell the Friends
List, when the expertise is at hand or if we should go even further and directly publish the
expertise on the Friends-List.
I have had to hear some personal attacks and insults from Mr. Levy, who was enraged that
I thus should dare to question his leadership, when weeks before he had decided to keep
his hands on this expertise. Mr. Levy wanted to have me excluded from the Task-Force for
sabotage and raising this issue - in his so charming way of saying "its him or me, I am
your leader, but if you should choose to decide for him, I shall lay down my mandate"
(cited from memory - you remember, I have no access to any of the two groups, nor its
archives). The Task-Force decided against my exclusion and also asked Mr. Levy to stay.
For the sake of peace within the group I aggreed to the demand of Mr. Levy to neither
publish the expertise nor to say a word of its existance to the Friends-List. So I must
admit, that I wholeheartedly laughed, when I read the above cited sentences. There might
by some kind of higher justice in it after all.
From the very beginning of the whole affair I have told Mr. Pustejovsky, our laywer, that I
was acting on behalf of an international group of Panorama-Photographers and Panorama
Artists. So it was clear to me that the expertise belongs to the members of the Friends-
List.
But what now is the problem?
After a legal check of the situation it has become clear to me, that according to German
law only a natural or legal person can give a mandate to a laywer. The Friends-Group is
neither. The WWP-Panorama association is a legal person by now, I am to my current
knowledge a natural person.
How to proceed further? I shall contact Mr. Pustejovsky on Monday to get this point clear.
But perhaps this situation makes possible, what I always really wanted - make the
expertise public to those, who have comissioned it in a moral sense and who have paid for
it in hard coin. I would like to grant the right of personal use to every single person on the
Friends-List, even to Mr. Levy and Mr. Amorth. After a certain peroid I would then transfer
the co-right of the expertise to the WWP-foundation. But first I will have to talk to Mr.
Pustejovsky. After my talk with him I will try to inform the friends on how I can proceed.
Mit vielen Gr??en
Carsten T. Rees