Yup, accomplished Iranian film director and Finnish newspaper mogul Alexis Kouros is suing me for 9,800 euros over copyright infringement and libel on this blog!! He claims that I am legally responsible for all negative comments about him, written by you all in this blog - this case is one of the first of it’s kind, not just in Finland but in the world.
It all started a year ago when Alexis Kouros got my Google Ads pulled by falsely claiming to represent YLE, STT, and Iltasanomat - that didn’t work, Google quickly turned them back on. I gained legal representation and soon filed a complaint about Kouros’ actions. Next, Kouros contacted the police and claimed criminal libel, the police conducted their investigation and dropped all charges. Kouros had previous filed a criminal complaint to the editors of Ovi Magazine, those charges were dropped as well. He’s also demanded that threads involving his name be removed from other online forums. So now he’s hired the law firm Borenius & Kemppinen to sue me in the Helsinki civil courts. I sincerely fear what he’ll do next.
http://www.finlandforthought.net/2008/03/02/alexis-kouros-is-suing-me-for-9800-euros/#comments
It all started a year ago when Alexis Kouros got my Google Ads pulled by falsely claiming to represent YLE, STT, and Iltasanomat - that didn’t work, Google quickly turned them back on. I gained legal representation and soon filed a complaint about Kouros’ actions. Next, Kouros contacted the police and claimed criminal libel, the police conducted their investigation and dropped all charges. Kouros had previous filed a criminal complaint to the editors of Ovi Magazine, those charges were dropped as well. He’s also demanded that threads involving his name be removed from other online forums. So now he’s hired the law firm Borenius & Kemppinen to sue me in the Helsinki civil courts. I sincerely fear what he’ll do next.
http://www.finlandforthought.net/2008/03/02/alexis-kouros-is-suing-me-for-9800-euros/#comments
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Vanhimmat
Interesting post, but a few essential corrections needed here:
1. Kouros is not a media mogul, but the editor of a small, grass root, immigrant newspaper called Sixdegrees.
2. schwarzmann has been harassing Kouros in his blog for years, Kouros never reacted to that.
3. Schwartzmann sued Kouros first, Kouros countersued.
4. Before finland for thought, Schwarzmann used to bark at Kouros and Sixdegrees in an Neo-Nazi site called stormfront.org, using the nickname “Eldrich”. He also donated money to that site through Amazon.com using his credit card (police is investigating).
5. Kouros is the best thing that has ever happened to the immigrant community in Finland, has produced a lot of genuine cultural stuff.
6. Scwarzmann is a shame to the blogging community, using his blog to abuse and defame people in the name of freedom of speech. He is certainly a troubled individual who needs professional help.
7. Scwarzmann gets salary form Nokia, using most of his working time to post and comment in his abusive blog. (He comments regularly on his own posts using false nicknames)
8. Many of the Diggs and posts are Schwarzmann (and co) himself using this and bloginterlinking to desprately get publicity.
9. Pathetic! Isn’t it?
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