Reply-To: From: "Jessica" To: "Andreas Hilda-Lund" Subject: Formal Legal Notice Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:43:47 -0400 Organization: Luke Charles Lirot, P.A. Message-Id: <000001c664b2$bf408230$8ba2fdd8@Rebecca> LUKE CHARLES LIROT, P.A. ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW 112 EAST STREET, SUITE B TAMPA, FL 33602 (813) 221-9533 TEL (813) 221-9175 FAX April 20, 2006 FORMAL LEGAL NOTICE Andreas Hilda-Lund Posboks 131 N-4098 Tanager, Norway Dear Mr. Hilda-Lund, My Law Office represents Mr. Peter Alexander, screenwriter, director and owner of the copyrights for the film titled "The Profit." As managing member of Courage Productions, LLC., it has been brought to my attention that you are advertising on the internet that you will be showing the aforementioned film in the near future. While my Client has great respect for you and truly appreciates your efforts in your activities involving Scientology, the exhibition of "The Profit" without appropriate approval would have very adverse consequences on the desire to exhibit the film internationally to a much larger audience. My client totally supports you and your work, but please do not work against him by showing this unfinished film. I will explain our position as follows. Since my client owns the rights to the film and has not provided you a copy, we can only safely assume that you have an improperly obtained copy. Please be advised that no one, including financial investors, is able or authorized to legally copy or distribute copies of the film. This leaves the only conclusion that your copy, or any copy that you have access to, has been unlawfully obtained or illegally copied and distributed. Considering your position in the anti-Scientology community, I am confident that you are also aware of the injunction placed on the film by a court of law in the United States, preventing the exhibition of the film without court approval. This fact, as well as the above stated position regarding ownership of the copyrights, puts my client in the unfortunate position of formally demanding that you do not exhibit "The Profit," or any segment thereof, unless and until you are given legal authority to do so, Whereas your internet activities of posting allegedly copyrighted "documents" from the Church of Scientology is apparently meant to expose the dangers you and others believe are inherent in the continued existence of Scientology, violating copyrights on a movie that was paid for and created as a commercial and profit-making venture is a completely different issue, governed and protected by international laws. Your stated intention to show this film can only be viewed as an attempt to tortiously interfere with a commercial enterprise as well as diluting the profit potential of the film, not to mention damaging the impact that international exhibition of the film would have in furtherance of free expression and social comment. Based on the foregoing, we must request that you return any copies you have of this film and if you claim not to have a copy, please indicate how you were planning to obtain a copy for the showing that you have advertised. We do not want to be put in the position of notifying the authorities in Norway about this situation, or have to seek the assistance from our State Department in order to invoke international copyright and other laws. This letter is sent as a courtesy and a sincere request that you will "do the right thing," particularly in light of the fact that my client has defended your efforts to express your viewpoints regarding Scientology for many years. For sure, "The Profit" will be shown, and my client is in the process of completing "post filming" editing and sound engineering that will result in the intended actual "finished copy," unlike the raw, non-color corrected copy that you have or may receive, so, to do justice to the artistic desires of Mr. Alexander, please do not exhibit the film, and either return your copy, or direct whoever has a copy of the film, to return any and all copies to my office. My clients, who believe they have suffered enough at the hands of a group that you claim to be helping to expose, are counting on you to realize that your compliance with these requests will prove to be the best way to advance the rights of human beings to be free from all adverse influences. Please contact me on receipt of this communication. Thank you. Sincerely, Luke Lirot, Esq. Attorney and Counselor at Law 112 N. East St., Suite B Tampa, Florida 33602 (813) 221-9533 Telephone (813) 221-9175 Facsimile Luke2@LirotLaw.com e-mail