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Louis asked about what % of the Marx Engels Internet Archive directory will be coming down. I have to ask Andy Blunden this but I suspect it's about 30% as everything else, as L&W noted in their statement, is in the public domain. But I will find out. A few other things to now: I drafted a statement for the MIA that has now gone up on the MIA in reply the L&W statement here: http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/collected_works_statement.html. Our reply is here: http://marxists.org/admin/legal/lw-response.html We do this not because we believe we can necessarily change the minds of the staff of L&W but because we feel dialogue about this is important. Joaquín is correct about what we forced to do legally. Keep in mind...at the end of the day they can go after our domain name. That would be a very bad thing. And we honestly don't believe L&W wants that. As we made clear, both in this statement I linked to and in previous statements by MIAers on our FB page, we are not behind the huge upsurge of revulsion by the broader socialist and Marxist "community"...it's had an effect, obviously. Whether L&W turns into breakfast meat because of this is wholly in their control. But regardless...we've always taken the high road...and our position on this is no different than previous encounters with other lefty publishers: we hope to work together in the future should conditions change. While our statement is a *polemic* by any definition, we believe it is a respectful one. Thanks for everyone's solidarity on this. I've never seen people come together around an issue like this before. It's great to see. David ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
