The Antenna Club Redux | Cover Feature | Memphis FlyerThe Antenna Club Redux
A reunion brings mods and rockers back to the punk crossroads.
by Chris Davis
Dan Ball
When it comes to the history of alternative music and culture in Memphis, all roads lead to the fabled Antenna Club, a grimy black hole of a bar once situated on the northwest corner of Madison and Avalon, between a pawn shop and a dentist's office that was also — most conveniently — a leasing office for inexpensive Midtown rental properties. The Antenna, widely regarded as one of the first and longest-lived punk-oriented venues in America, closed 14 years ago. It was a hub for creativity in Memphis and is being remembered and celebrated with a 26-band concert August 14th and 15th at Murphy's and at Nocturnal, the site of the original venue.
When the Crime played the Antenna Club in the early 1980s, lines would snake down Madison and spill around the corner onto Avalon. The band, which featured guitars and vocals by Jeff Golightly and Rick Camp, was a risky experiment in a city where all the good-paying gigs went to top-40 cover bands. But Golightly and Camp, who still play together in a multigenerational band called the Everyday Parade, were on a quest to play new wave and punk music in Memphis and to eventually write their own songs. Before long, they were touring and playing bigger clubs and coliseums around the region. But no matter how big the gigs got, they always looked forward to coming home to the Antenna and to Memphis' burgeoning punk-rock scene.
"We were part of somthing new," says Golightly, who has a conflicting gig and can't participate in this weekend's reunion. "The folks we called 'criminals' were ready for us, and they were ready for the scene that developed around the Antenna. The room is magical. We packed the place on a regular basis, and the heat and sweat practically made the place rain inside. When you put bodies in that space, the sound was like nowhere else, and the Crime could make it pulsate."
Panther Burns' loquacious drummer Ross Johnson, who has attempted but never finished a book on the Antenna Club, confesses, only somewhat begrudgingly, that Golightly's description of the early scene is accurate. As a part of the snottier, noisier art-rock side of Memphis punk, there was a time when Johnson couldn't readily admit it was the Crime's smart power pop that kept the club's doors open. "We could be really cruel sometimes," he says, remembering that he used to get a kick out of sitting at the bar and heckling other bands. "Time softens things," he says, recalling the time he was thrown out of the club for throwing a beer at his sometime-bandmate Alex Chilton.
Memphis' punk scene got started in 1979, when the bar at 1588 Madison was still called the Well and local groups like Tav Falco's Panther Burns, the Randy Band, and the Klitz swapped out shows on the weekends. In 1981, the property was sold to James Barker and Phillip Stratton, who changed the name to the Antenna Club, painted the interior black, mounted TV monitors on the walls, and started showing RockAmerica music videos. They also started booking national acts. Johnson says the videos, which were a novelty in 1981, a year before MTV was available in Memphis, got old fast and that the outside booking initially was met with resentment by locals, who liked having a monopoly on the club's stage.
When Steve McGehee, a former head waiter for TGIFridays, took the club over from Barker and Stratton, outside booking became even more aggressive.
"The club really started jumping, and more and more bands formed," Golightly says, recalling a period in the early 1980s when the Randy Band's bright pop and the heady new wave of Calculated X and Barking Dog were showcased alongside the honky tonk swagger of Neon Wheels, the privative stylings of the Klitz, and the noisy roots fusion of Panther Burns and Milford & the Modifiers. "It was a scene where the famous and the unknowns could share a stage," Golightly says. "It was a venue that would give any band a shot, as long as they brought a crowd that drank some beer."
The Antenna Club became as famous for the shows nobody saw as for the ones everybody turned out to see. The first time R.E.M. played, the club was barely able to scrap together enough cash to pay the band's $50 guarantee. McGehee remembers feeling completely alone while he watched Mission of Burma play one of the greatest sets he's ever seen.
Alex Greene, a multi instrumentalist who's played with Big Ass Truck and Reigning Sound, was one of a handful of people who saw Detroit garage legends the Gories when they played their first show in Memphis. (A recent double reunion featuring the Gories and the Oblivians packed the Hi-Tone to the point of discomfort.) And not every great show went under-appreciated. "I believe we had the devil himself in here the first night Black Flag played," McGehee says.
In the '80s, the Antenna became a regular stop for hardcore and punk bands recording for Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn's SST label, bands such as Hüsker Dü, the Meat Puppets, the Minutemen, and Bad Brains.
Johnson says the club probably owes its longevity to the enduring nature of Memphis' hardcore scene. He attributes much of the lingering interest in the venue to its successful embrace of all-ages shows. Cult filmmaker Mike McCarthy, whose band Distemper played the Antenna's first all-ages show, has a simpler explanation. "The great irony is this," he says, "if you were an alternative person in Memphis in the 1980s, you only had one place to go."
In July, McCarthy, who once shot a horror movie at the Antenna Club, spent three weeks touring his latest film, Cigarette Girl, around Australia, where it premiered as part of the Revelation Perth International Film Festival. In 1983, however, McCarthy had another kind of road trip in mind. After visiting Memphis and taking in a show by an edgy New Mexico power pop band called the Philisteens, the Tupelo native decided to move to the Bluff City to attend art school and play rock-and-roll at the Antenna.
"I sat terrified in the parking lot of River City Donuts, scoping the place out, watching the toughest dude I'd ever seen in my life walking into the club wearing a black leather jacket and a mohawk," McCarthy says. "Amid the disorienting TV screens with the Sex Pistols doing 'God Save the Queen,' and lights that turned my teeth as green as Johnny Rotten's, I realized that the punk I'd seen outside was merely the waiter, Steve McGehee. That night defined punk for me."
Although the Antenna had a reputation for being a punk club, all kinds of bands played there. Before he moved to Athens, Georgia, and wrote "The Night G.G. Allin Came to Town," Patterson Hood lived in Memphis and played the Antenna with his band, Adam's House Cat. Nancy Apple, a driving force behind Memphis' singer/songwriter scene, describes the Antenna as a "country-friendly" establishment, where she gigged with Linda Gale Lewis and Cordell Jackson, the rockabilly granny. "I always felt like I had hit the big time when I played there," Apple says, allowing that her brand of twang was often referred to as "cowpunk." "It was one of those places where there was almost always a great crowd, no matter who was playing."
Even rappers played the Antenna. "Big Ass Truck would serve as a backup band to various rappers [playing the Antenna]," says Alex Greene, citing a gig the band performed with the young Al Kapone.
The 1990s saw new scenes spring up around the Grifters, a brooding quartet that mixed angular, atmospheric indie rock with blues and metal flourishes, and around garage-rock innovators the Oblivians and Impala, surf-rockers with a flare for squalling crime jazz and dirty rhythm and blues.
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Shangri-La records founder Sherman Willmott, who produced many of the Grifters' first recordings, describes the Antenna as a place where great shows received little or no promotion: "You always knew you were going to be one of a handful of lucky people to see the best bands in the world — like the Screaming Trees, the Chills, and Government Issue — but you were never really sure if the band mentioned on the club's answering machine would play, when they arrived and saw a broken sign, no posters for the show, a couple of underage girls, a crazy looking doorman straight out of film-noir, punk-rock, motorcycle-gang hell, and a couple Midtown hipsters hanging at the bar watching RockAmerica videos and drinking stale keg beer." Willmott complains without actually complaining. "Only in Memphis could a club run so poorly — no phone-answering, ever — survive for that many years despite itself. God bless the Antenna Club, with all of its open sores and decrepit beauty. It was like an alternative-universe island in a nightmare town of classic rock."
Like the King of Rock and Roll, who passed away after slipping from his private Whitehaven throne in the wee hours of the morning, the Antenna Club's death was less than proud. A venue that hosted great performances by the likes of Robyn Hitchcock, the Replacements, and Suicidal Tendencies quietly closed following a poorly attended concert by a disposable buzz band called Tripping Daisy.
According to the club's last manager, Mark McGehee, who'd taken over operations from his brother, Steve, things "went kind of sour" when he told the band that he couldn't possibly meet the pre-arranged $680 guarantee. Commercial Appeal reporter Larry Nager noted in an article about the club's closing that after combining monies from the door, beer sales, and the cigarette machine, McGehee only had $400 and that wasn't enough to satisfy the band. That's when McGehee decided he was finished. When the media inquired, he told them the club had closed because live entertainment was dying in Midtown. He added that alternative music had become mainstream, and the Antenna Club had outlived its usefulness.
But like a stubborn ghost, the Antenna Club never left the building. The property's next two incarnations, the Void and Barristers, were short-lived alt-rock clubs in the mold of their famous predecessor. In 1997, the space was significantly renovated, decorated with red-and-white candy-striped furniture, and rebranded as a tony lesbian bar called the Madison Flame. The club's owners would occasionally book rock shows for Midtown bands and music fans, who regarded 1588 Madison Avenue as holy ground. Nocturnal, the club currently located on the site, features a regular slate of live music.
But this weekend, the ghost returns from punk purgatory, and the Antenna Club will live once more — at least for a couple of days.
The A List
Hundreds of bands played the Antenna Club. These are a few of them:
The Replacements, The Fall, Neon Wheels, Dead Milkmen, Suicidal Tendencies, Mudboy & the Neutrons, R.E.M., Angerhead, Odd Jobs, Pezz, The Bongos, The Randy Band, Adam's House Cat, Widespread Panic, Teen Idols, The Compulsive Gamblers, NRBQ, Greg Hisky, Guided by Voices, Calculated X, The Gun Club, Trusty, Impala, Linda Heck & the Trainwreck,The Hellcats, The Gories, The Verbs, The Country Rockers, The Marilyns, Jason & the Scorchers, Mojo Nixon, Vibration Society, The Oblivians, Gene Loves Jezebel, Black Flag, The Scam, Think as Incas, Los Pimpin, Love Tractor, Flaming Lips, Metro Waste, Big Ass Truck, G.G. Allin, The Modifiers, Paul Burleson, Man With Gun Lives Here, Panther Burns, The Cadillac Cowgirl, Neighborhood Texture Jam, Beanland, Crowded House, Circle Jerks, Alice Donut, The Bum Notes, The Klitz, DDT, Hüsker Dü, The Generics, Sobering Consequences, The Grifters, Econochrist, Meat Puppets, The Simpletones, Alex Chilton, Hole, Bad Brains, Taintskins, Mission of Burma, Our Faorite Band, White Animals, Royal Crescent Mob, Barking Dog, Xavion, Bob's Lead Hyena, The Crime, Robyn Hitchcock, Busta Jones, The Minutemen, Webb Wilder, The Plimsouls, Uncle Tupelo, Cordell Jackson, Green Day.
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Uri Geller: Got Litigious? Or Suit Bender
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A letter from Uri Geller's lawyer to James Randi.
Geller settles Jackson libel case
Michael Jackson's friend Uri Geller has settled a legal case over tabloid claims the pair wanted to use positive thinking to solve the credit crunch.
Uri Geller and Michael Jackson were close friends
The Sun has issued an apology and full retraction, and agreed to donate to Geller's charitable foundation, said Belfast-based libel lawyer Paul Tweed.
The story included a false claim he contacted Simon Cowell with a plan to halt the economic downturn.
The Sun's apology read: "We now accept that our story was without foundation."
It said: "We wrongly reported that Uri Geller had collaborated with the late Michael Jackson on a recent project."
Mr Geller consulted Mr Tweed, who has successfully represented him in previous libel cases, following an article published last December - six months before Jackson's sudden death.
Discover's apology
May 2009
Uri is absolutely delighted that Discover magazine are to publish the above-noted retraction in response to a complaint filed by his lawyers regarding totally false and defamatory allegations. The retraction and apology reads: "The August 2007 issue of Discover magazine included an article entitled "Whatever happened to Uri Geller?". This article incorrectly reported that the Knesset had branded Mr Geller a disgrace to the State of Israel. We apologize for this error". I am very satisfied with this outcome and vindication of my reputation.
San Francisco Judge dismisses case against Uri Geller
Press Release
Alschuler Grossman
Stein & Kahan LLP
Clarifications of some legal issus
US Ruling makes libel in cyberspace punishable
This article appeared in the New York Times, Dec 18, 2000
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Explorologist Ltd v Brian Sapient aka Brian J Cutler
Opposition to the Motion to Dismiss
An apology with a financial five-figure settlement
In my February 4 Computer Chat column, I atempted to express Uri Geller's colourful involvement in the paranormal with what I intended to be an amusing and inofensive wordplay, exchanging "psychotic" for "psychic". I did not intend to suggest that he has any kind of a mental disorder, and I offer my sincere apologies. I do in fact admire his powers, I'll watch his law suit against Nintendo with interest. I shall stick to what I know.
An Apology from James Randi
Randi had to instruct his publishers to place an erratum in his book. The following are the misleading statements which I found in Randi's book.
On page 9: Seven lines from the bottom by using the words "brought to court." this suggested that myself Uri Geller and Shipi Shtrang were physically taken to court, which was not the case. A legal action was brought against me, with the judge accepting on behalf of the court an amount of money sent in anonymously which settled the charge.
Next on page 154: Line 11 - it would have been accurate to say I Uri Geller was dismissed from an officer's training course". There is no evidence or reason to make the suggestion that I was cashiered.
On page 198: Line 24 it should state "charged through the courts, and a settlement was made in favour of the plaintiff."
On page 215: In paragraph 3, reference "f": I Uri Geller was not, technically, "tried in a court of law and convicted" but was charged through the courts, with a settlement being made. The plaintiff in this case had charged that I Uri Geller was performing tricks rather than producing paranormal feats. The judge awarded the plaintiff only the price he had paid for admission to my show.
I shall reproduce for the purpose of clarity, the complete text of the July 1971 article as it appeared in the Jerusalem Post.
Legerdemain ruled Breach of Contract
Beersheba - The Magistrate's Court here yesterday upheld charges that Uri Geller, the self-proclaimed telepathist, was guilty of breach of contract in that he promised to perform feats of telepathy, parapsychology, hypnotism and telekinesis, while in fact he merely employed sleight-of-hand and stage tricks.
Geller was ordered to foot costs of £20 and to repay the plaintiff - Uri Goldstein, a mechanical engineering student at the University of the Negev - the £7.50 Goldstein had paid for a ticket to one of Geller's performances.
The court ruled with the plaintiff that Geller's performance - in contrast to his advertised promises - constituted a breach of the contract defined by the purchase of a ticket to the performance.
An excerpt from Uri Geller Magician or Mystic by Jonathan Margolis (Time magazine's European correspondent)
Published in the UK by Orion Books (1999) in the USA by Welcome Rain (2000).Accordingly, perhaps Uri began from the late Seventies to rely on legal muscle rather than any psychic power to pursue his fervent desire not to be, as he saw it, cheated or defamed. He even became something of a law junkie.Through an ever expanding file of legal cases against his perceived enemies, he gathered a team of committed lawyers in the US and Britain, who understand him and have become wise counsel to him in both the legal and the personal sense. In the USA, Richard Winelander, a Baltimore attorney, took over the Geller file by accident when an ex-colleague, Don Katz, was disbarred. 'I'm a criminal attorney,' said Winelander. 'I don't even believe witnesses. But I believe strongly in Uri. He's a genius, and he's my buddy. He managed to stop me smoking fifty a day, and the spoon-bending is real. It is totally unbelievable.'In New York his attorney and friend Robert Fogelnest keeps an eye on everything that is written and said about Uri Geller. Robert Fogelnest is immediate past President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and lectures on courtroom skills with a nationally famous Wyoming trial lawyer, Gerry Spence.In London, Uri's barrister is the eminent Q C, Jonathan Caplan, another classic high-flyer - and strong believer in the paranormal and UFOs. His solicitor in Britain is Gordon Hausmann, a fluent Hungarian and Hebrew speaker who is married to an Israeli and has been involved in UK trials of anti-Israeli terrorists. In Europe, a Zurich advocate, Ulrich Kohli, who is also a Swiss Army lieutenant-colonel and a thriller writer, looks after Uri's interests. Another close Geller adviser is a retired Federal Judge in Santa Barbara, California, Lee Holden who, like a lot of lawyers, was highly sceptical of Uri when he first met him, but now credits him with being 'one hundred per cent real' - and says his life changed dramatically by adopting Uri's positive thinking techniques. It is perhaps unsurprising, given such a range of family friends in the law and a father so fascinated by law, that Daniel Geller, at just 17 and a prefect at his private school near Reading, currently hopes to make his career as a European commercial lawyer.The important thing about Uri's cases as far as 'the big picture' is concerned is that none have involved proof or disproof of the paranormal, and almost all have involved James Randi's excitable turn of phrase, In 1990, he sued Randi and a Japanese publisher for Randi's claim in a Japanese magazine that Dr Wilbur Franklin of Kent State University committed suicide because he was so ashamed when Randi discredited Geller. In fact, Franklin had died of natural causes. Randi was ordered by the court in Tokyo to pay half a million yen (�2,500) for the insult while the Japanese publisher settled out of court with a high six-figure sum - in dollars, not yen. Geller successfully sued a newspaper in Hungary, in which Randi had been quoted accusing him and Shipi of being swindlers. Uri explained that he was bringing the case because he was embarrassed that his Hungarian relatives might have read the comments. The newspaper had to publish a retraction and pay damages and costs. Uri sued Randi and CSICOP for a comment in the International Herald Tribune that his 'tricks' were 'the kind of thing that used to be on the back of cereal boxes when I was a kid'. In the US, he sued Timex for featuring a metal-bending performer in an advertisement, claiming this effect was his trademark. In London, Florida and Hawaii, he sued Victor Stenger, a sceptical scientist living in Hawaii, and Prometheus Books for writing falsely that he had been arrested in Israel for misrepresenting himself as a psychic. Uri only regretted not suing Randi in the 1970s for inventing the story of Uri being convicted of a crime.The Timex case failed. In the Prometheus case, over the alleged arrest in Israel, Uri gained a written apology and acknowledgement of error from both the American and British branches of CSICOP. In the States, the Herald Tribune case had to be dropped when his then lawyer Don Katz failed to file on time, while the argument that Randi was an agent of CSICOP was rejected. This led Uri, ironically since he was the plaintiff, into having to pay CSICOP $82,000 as part of a global settlement of all the cases, although in the long run, both CSICOP and Randi seem to have been more damaged than Uri by the six-year legal morass. Randi continues to maintain that he won all the cases Uri brought. A lot of Uri's mis-management of cases was clearly the fault of Katz, his original Baltimore attorney, who seems to have been almost psychotically stressed out when he made an error on an unrelated case for which he was briefly disbarred. Katz's co-counsels' insurers repaid Uri most of what he lost over the case.A case not directly involving Uri, but which would not have happened without him, came to court in 1993. Five years earlier, Randi had referred in an interview to Eldon Byrd being 'in jail as a convicted child molester', Byrd sued in Baltimore, with Winelander as his attorney. At the 1993 trial Randi accused Geller in passing of blackmailing him with a transcript and a tape that appeared to be of Randi having intimate sexual conversations with teenage boys. Randi said in explanation that he had been working on behalf of the telephone company in its attempt to track down a minor who had been making obscene calls to his home. After a discursive trial, the jury found Randi guilty of libel with malice, but awarded no money to Byrd, having discovered that Byrd had a past conviction for possession of pornography. Randi has since repeatedly claimed he won this case too.If Uri Geller's 'semi-retirement' in the USA looks more like a whirl of activity, it has taken a somewhat hyperactive form in Britain too, where he lives in a state of permanent reinvention. He came to Britain when crime and shootings in the USA had made him and Hanna doubt that it was where they wanted to bring up Daniel and Natalie. On an aeroplane he met Clement Freud, a distant relative on his mother's side, then a British MP, who suggested he settle in England. The Gellers needed little persuading.Although Uri gives the impression that over the past fifteen years he has been quiescent, his own account of his activity - prompted, as ever, by Randi and his claims that 'Geller is finished' - belies the idea of retirement. 'In the past ten years,' he said, 'I've written seven books, which have been translated into dozens of languages in thirty-three countries. I am working on five more books. I write eight different columns for magazines and newspapers, including The Times, My website has received as many as 400,000 hits in one day, A full-length motion picture about me by Ken Russell and distributed by Disney was sold to sixty countries in three days at the American Film Market. I have starred in countless TV specials and commercials, been written up in recent months in Newsweek and Sports Illustrated. And the latest Nieman Marcus catalogue in the States uses my name - without having asked me - to advertise a new range of silver cutlery. I don't mean to brag, but it's a damned funny kind of "finished" Poor old "Amazing" Randi continues to imagine things.'
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Uri meets Randi April 1999 On Monday April 12th 1999, at 9:20 AM New York time, Uri Geller saw James Randi standing with a producer of the American TV program "Inside Edition", outside the cordoned area where magician David Blaine was buried. Uri was standing with his wife, two children and Shipi Shtrang, his brother in law. Shipi who was filming the event on a professional sony video camera. Uri walked over to James Randi, who was just a few feet away, extending his hand in greeting. Randi refused to shake Uri's hand. Uri asked Randi "why aren't you shaking my hand Randi?" In turn, Randi answered "because I hate your guts". The producer looked a bit embarrassed. All this has been captured on video. All of Uri Geller's attorneys have been notified about this interesting and revealing remark.
Marcello Truzzi, Eastern Michigan University, conclusion.
Uri Geller wins Japanese legal action.
Uri Geller wins legal settlement.
Apologies by Montcalm publishing corporation.
Further apologies to Uri Geller in the High Courts
1992 G 395IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION BETWEEN URI GELLER Plaintiff and PROMETHEUS BOOKS INC PROMETHEUS BOOKS (UK) (a firm) EDDINGTON HOOK LIMITED VICTOR J. STENGER Defendants;
AFFIDAVIT OF MICHAEL HUTCHINSON
AFFIDAVIT OF PAUL KURTZ
It is reported that Mr. Uri Geller and the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of the Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) have now reached by mutual agreement a comprehensive settlement in relation to the last remaining law suits between them. This follows earlier settlement of the action against James Randi and Mr. Geller`s agreement not to pursue the 500,000 Yen award obtained by him against Randi in the courts of Japan. The Japanese publishers who printed Randi's remarks about Uri Geller settled out of court with Uri, paying him an undesclosed very large amount of money, comparable to that which would have been obtained in the American Courts. The settlement reached with CSICOP includes dismissal of the case pending in the English courts against Prometheus Books, Victor Stenger, Paul Kurtz and others. This case was shortly to be set down for trial. Paul Kurtz is the Chairman of CSICOP and the manager of Prometheus Books (Defendants in the English Action). Mr Kurtz and Prometheus have agreed to send a letter confirming that they issued an "errata" in all editions of the book, "Physics and Psychics" since they first learned of the error in 1992, and will ensure that any future edition will not contain those erroneous statements. In an edition of its publication Skeptical Briefs, CSICOP claimed it had incurred Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000) in costs defending the libel actions against it. Another individual defendant claims to have incurred approximately $250,000 in costs defending himself from various libel actions. In June 1992, Kurtz had issued a sworn Affidavit, stating inter alia: Prior to publication [of the book] neither I nor anyone employed by (Prometheus Books, Inc.) were aware that there were any errors in "Physics and Psychics" and I never knew that it contained the words complained of until I heard from the solicitors for the Plaintiff. ...I now understand that it is untrue ... I unreservedly apologize to him both on behalf of myself and the first defendants [Prometheus Books]. Uri Geller stated: I welcome this global settlement of the remaining law suits which arose for the purpose of protecting my name and reputation in various countries where I am well known, against what are now accepted as unjustified attacks. I have accepted Mr. Kurtz` apology, and feel that justice has been done, and my reputation vindicated. My immediate future plans include the forthcoming release of the film inspired by my life story, "Mindbender" directed by Ken Russell and starring Terence Stamp. I have also accepted invitations for television and "live" appearances, and I am currently preparing a TV special with Sir David Frost. Gordon Hausmann, Geller`s principal UK solicitor says: It is sensible for Mr. Geller to settle these disputes, in spite of a strong and compelling legal case, which I believe would have been upheld by the Courts, in order to end protracted litigation in different jurisdictions, and come to an amicable settlement. However Mr Geller continues and will continue to call to account those who defame him. There are a few publications and books that contain inaccurate and libelous statements about Uri Geller, those will eventually be dealt with through the courts. Almost every country has different libel laws and individuals who libeled will have difficulty hiding behind the statute of limitations. In the USA some laws vary from state to state.
Statements
Ruth M. Liebesman Attorney at Law
475 Park Avenue South, Suite 3300, New York, NY 10016, USA
Tel. 212 683 8000. Telecopier. 212 683 9422Statement
We are happy to let people believe or disbelieve as their conscience dictates. Unfortunately, a few people are very threatened by what Uri can do, and do not want people to believe what we know; that what Uri does is real. As a result, some of them are willing to make up almost anything to discredit him. Some of the lies have been beyond reprehensible, many of them have been without any factual basis. But that's where I come in. I protect Uri from the lies.
Richard Winelander Esq.
Litigation and Consultation
Bar Admissions: U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Courts of Appeal; 3rd; 4th; 11th & D.C. Circuits. U.S. District Court; MD; D.C.Suite 400, 19 East Fayette St., Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21202.
Tel. 410 576 7980. Toll free 1-800 757 2878. Panafax 410 685 5825. Pager 410 471 8272.Statement
After years of being the Legal Guardian of Uri Geller's Psychic Domain, my philosophy as Chief Litigation Counsel has become relatively simple. If a skeptic or any individual defames my client, breaches a contract, or tortiously interferes with Uri's Business relationships, I will act immediately to protect my client's interests, by bringing to bear the full force of the law.
ROBERT FOGELNEST
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SUITE 3300, 475 PARK AVENUE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10015
TEL (212) 683 8000 * FAX (212) 683 9422
Immediate past President of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
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Το σύνολο του περιεχομένου, των πληροφοριών και των υπηρεσιών που παρέχονται στο website, ανήκουν αποκλειστικά στην ΑΝΤΕΝΝΑ TV A.E. (και στον όμιλο εταιρειών της).Τα ηλεκτρονικά έγγραφα, οι φωτογραφίες, η μουσική και κάθε γενικά πνευματικό δημιούργημα που έχει ενσωματωθεί στο website ανήκει στην ΑΝΤΕΝΝΑ TV A.E. (και στον όμιλο εταιρειών της), και στα παραπάνω πρόσωπα σύμφωνα με την κείμενη νομοθεσία περί πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας. Τα λογότυπα, επωνυμίες, εμπορικά σήματα και γνωρίσματα που περιλαμβάνονται στο website ανήκουν στην ANTENNA TV A.E. (και στον όμιλό της) ή/και στα πρόσωπα που μνημονεύονται ως κύριοι των σχετικών δικαιωμάτων στο website, και προστατεύονται σύμφωνα με την κείμενη νομοθεσία για την βιομηχανική ιδιοκτησία.
Αναπαραγωγή ή εκμετάλλευση του περιεχομένου του website:
Απαγορεύεται, χωρίς την προηγούμενη έγγραφη άδειά μας, η οποιαδήποτε χρήση, εκμετάλλευση, δημοσίευση, αναδημοσίευση, αναπαραγωγή, αντιγραφή με μηχανικό ή άλλο τρόπο, με επεξεργασία ή χωρίς, του περιεχομένου του website και των υπηρεσιών που προσφέρονται σε αυτό. Κατ εξαίρεση, επιτρέπεται η εκτύπωση και αντιγραφή των ιστοσελίδων και του περιεχομένου τους, υπό την προϋπόθεση ότι αυτά δεν θα αλλοιωθούν, τροποποιηθούν ή μεταβληθούν με οποιοδήποτε τρόπο και μόνον εφόσον προορίζονται για προσωπική χρήση από τον ίδιο τον χρήστη. Απαγορεύεται η αναπαραγωγή οποιουδήποτε στοιχείου περιλαμβάνεται στο Website, websites που δεν ανήκουν ή ελέγχονται από την ANTENNA TV A.E. ή/και εταιρείες του ομίλου της, ακόμη και με τη μορφή συνδέσμων (links) ή άλλων τρόπων παραπομπής στο Website.
Αποσυμπίληση:
Απαγορεύεται αυστηρά η οποιαδήποτε επεξεργασία του περιεχομένου του website, συμπεριλαμβανομένων ιδίως της αποσυμπίλησης (decompilation) του λογισμικού που περιλαμβάνεται σε αυτό ή την καθ οιονδήποτε τρόπο επεξεργασία του πηγαίου του κώδικα.
Η οπτική απεικόνιση και σχεδιασμός κάθε ιστοσελίδας του website ανήκει αποκλειστικά στην ANTENNA TV A.E. (και στον όμιλό της). Σε κάθε περίπτωση το σύνολο του περιεχομένου και των υπηρεσιών του website παρέχεται στους χρήστες τους αποκλειστικά για προσωπική τους χρήση. Εκτός εάν προβλέπεται ρητά διαφορετικά, τα σήματα, λογότυπα και λοιπά διακριτικά γνωρίσματα ανήκουν στην εταιρεία " ANTENNA TV A.E." (και στον όμιλό της), το δε λογισμικό έχει δημιουργηθεί από και ανήκει στην εταιρεία "ANTENNA Internet A.E.".
Αποθήκευση streaming ή άλλων media:
Σε περίπτωση που οι χρήστες έχουν πρόσβαση σε υπηρεσίες streaming media, απαγορεύεται αυστηρά ή με οποιαδήποτε τεχνική μέθοδο αποθήκευση του stream σε τοπικά μέσα κάθε μορφής, εν όλω ή εν μέρει, στην ίδια ή σε άλλη μορφή αρχείου ήχου ή εικόνας (π.χ. wav, wma, mp3, mpeg κλπ) που υπάρχει σήμερα ή θα εφευρεθεί στο μέλλον. Απαγορεύεται επίσης η απόσπαση και αποθήκευση (download) από το website σε τοπικά μέσα (μηχανικά ή ηλεκτρονικά) φωτογραφιών, λογοτύπων, κειμένων, animations, gifs, ήχων, εικόνων γενικώς, στατικών ή κινούμενων εκτός εάν τούτο ρητά επιτρέπεται και στο μέτρο που αυτό ρητά επιτρέπεται, σε κάθε συγκεκριμένη ιστοσελίδα.
Ακρίβεια πληροφοριών και στοιχείων:
Διευκρινίζεται ότι το περιεχόμενο του website είναι ψυχαγωγικό και όχι ενημερωτικό, και ως εκ τούτου οι χρήστες δεν μπορούν να βασίζουν την οποιαδήποτε συμπεριφορά τους στις πληροφορίες που περιλαμβάνονται σε αυτό, και εμείς δεν αναλαμβάνουμε καμία ευθύνη σε περίπτωση που κάποια από τις πληροφορίες που έχουμε συμπεριλάβει στο website αποδειχθεί ανακριβής. Δεν ευθυνόμαστε ιδίως για κάθε θετική και αποθετική ζημία των χρηστών και επισκεπτών του website ή/και του περιεχομένου του. Σε κάθε περίπτωση πάντως, θα καταβάλλουμε κάθε δυνατή προσπάθεια για την ακρίβεια των πληροφοριών που θα έχουμε εντάξει στο website και θα προέρχονται από εμάς. Δεν αναλαμβάνουμε καμία ευθύνη για πληροφορίες, ειδήσεις και στοιχεία που έχουν ενσωματωθεί στο website και προέρχονται από τρίτους.
Δεν φέρουμε καμία απολύτως ευθύνη για το περιεχόμενο, τα προϊόντα ή τις υπηρεσίες που προσφέρονται από websites τρίτων, προς τα οποία ενδεχομένως το website μας να παραπέμπει με συνδέσμους (links) από καιρού εις καιρόν, ούτε εγγυώμεθα προς τους επισκέπτες και χρήστες την καλή εκτέλεση στην παροχή υπηρεσιών ή/και πώληση προϊόντων, την ακρίβεια τυχόν πληροφοριών, την ποιότητα των τυχόν προσφερομένων υπηρεσιών ή/και προϊόντων ή/και γενικά τη νόμιμη, καλόπιστη ή ηθική συμπεριφορά των τρίτων, προς των οποίων τα websites ενδέχεται να παραπέμπει με συνδέσμους από καιρού εις καιρόν.
Στοιχειώδεις κανόνες συμπεριφοράς χρηστών σε υπηρεσίες επικοινωνίας:
Οι χρήστες που έχουν πρόσβαση σε υπηρεσίες επικοινωνίας μέσω του website, όπως σε υπηρεσίες δικτυακών συζητήσεων (chat), ανταλλαγής απόψεων (forum), επικοινωνίας μέσω ηλεκτρονικού ταχυδρομείου (email) ή αποστολής μηνυμάτων με οποιοδήποτε τρόπο, όπως π.χ. με γραπτά μηνύματα φωνητικής τηλεφωνίας (sms) αποδέχονται με την χρήση από αυτούς των εν λόγω υπηρεσιών, ότι θα σέβονται την προσωπικότητα των προσώπων προς τα οποία απευθύνεται η σχετική επικοινωνία τους, και θα απευθύνονται σε αυτά με τρόπο σύννομο, ευγενή και ευπρεπή. Η χρήση προσβλητικών, συκοφαντικών και εν γένει άκοσμων χαρακτηρισμών ή εκφράσεων απαγορεύεται και δίδει το δικαίωμα σε εμάς να κοινοποιήσουμε τα στοιχεία των παραβαινόντων στις δέουσες Αρχές και στους θιγόμενους για την άσκηση των νομίμων δικαιωμάτων τους, και με την επιφύλαξη του δικαιώματός μας να αξιώσουμε από τον υπεύθυνο κάθε ζημία που τυχόν υποστούμε από τέτοια συμπεριφορά.
Απαγορεύεται η με οποιοδήποτε τρόπο διαταραχή των συζητήσεων ή άλλης μορφής επικοινωνιών που γίνονται σε αληθινό χρόνο, με την αποστολή επαναληπτικών ή/και ανούσιων μηνυμάτων (flooding). Αντίστοιχα, απαγορεύεται η αποστολή επαναλαμβανόμενων, ενοχλητικών, συνειδητά υπέρογκων ή ανούσιων μηνυμάτων ή ping packets σε υπηρεσίες μη πραγματικού χρόνου (όπως email και sms) που σκοπεύουν στην επιβάρυνση των συστημάτων μας (bombing, spamming). Σε οποιαδήποτε τέτοια περίπτωση διατηρούμε το δικαίωμα να εκδιώξουμε άμεσα τον διαταράσσοντα από την επικοινωνιακή πλατφόρμα έως και να τον αποκλείσουμε οριστικά από κάθε προσφερόμενη υπηρεσία μας, επιφυλασσόμενοι για κάθε ζημία που τυχόν υποστούμε από τέτοια συμπεριφορά.
Τα μηνύματα που καταγράφονται και εμφανίζονται στο Forum αντιπροσωπεύουν τις απόψεις των εγγεγραμμένων χρηστών του Web Site. Δεν αντιπροσωπεύουν ή εκφράζουν την θέση του ΑΝΤ1.
Απαγορεύεται ρητά η χρήση οποιαδήποτε υπηρεσίας μας για οποιοδήποτε άλλο σκοπό εκτός από προσωπικό. Ενδεικτικά, απαγορεύεται απολύτως η εκμετάλλευση των επικοινωνιακών και λοιπών υπηρεσιών μας για προώθηση εμπορικών μηνυμάτων πάσης φύσεως, συμπεριλαμβανομένων και μηνυμάτων σεξουαλικού περιεχομένου (junk mail/sms/messages), είτε πρόκειται για υπηρεσίες αληθινού χρόνου είτε όχι. Σε οποιαδήποτε τέτοια περίπτωση διατηρούμε το δικαίωμα να εκδιώξουμε άμεσα τον υπεύθυνο από την επικοινωνιακή πλατφόρμα έως και να τον αποκλείσουμε οριστικά από κάθε προσφερόμενη υπηρεσία μας, επιφυλασσόμενοι για κάθε ζημία που τυχόν υποστούμε από τέτοια συμπεριφορά. Δεν ευθυνόμαστε απέναντι σε οποιοδήποτε χρήστη ή επισκέπτη για την τυχόν απρεπή, προσβλητική ή καθ οιονδήποτε τρόπο παράνομη συμπεριφορά άλλων χρηστών προς αυτούς.
Ευθύνες:
Υπενθυμίζεται ότι οποιαδήποτε ενέργεια γίνεται με σκοπό την πρόκληση βλάβης στα συστήματα, το περιεχόμενο, τα επιμέρους στοιχεία και το website γενικά, όπως επίσης και οποιαδήποτε ενέργεια αποσκοπεί στο να βλάψει τα συμφέροντα, το όνομα, την φήμη, την πελατεία, την τιμή και την υπόληψή μας, αποτελούν, μεταξύ άλλων, και ποινικά αδικήματα, και μάς δίδουν το δικαίωμα να προβούμε σε κάθε νόμιμη ενέργεια κατά των υπαιτίων για την προάσπιση των συμφερόντων μας. Το αυτό ισχύει και για κάθε ενέργεια που θα είναι αντίθετη από τις από καιρού εις καιρόν οδηγίες που θα παρέχονται στους χρήστες και επισκέπτες του website, σε συγκεκριμένες ιστοσελίδες του, αναφορικά με τον τρόπο χρήσης των προσφερομένων υπηρεσιών.
Προστασία Προσωπικών Δεδομένων Επισκεπτών και Χρηστών:
Από καιρού εις καιρόν, ενδέχεται να παρέχουμε προς τους χρήστες των υπηρεσιών μας διάφορες φόρμες, στις οποίες αυτοί θα παρέχουν (μη ευαίσθητα) προσωπικά τους στοιχεία. Τα στοιχεία αυτά ζητούνται για τον σκοπό της καλύτερης εξυπηρέτησης των χρηστών και για κανέναν άλλο σκοπό. Τα ως άνω στοιχεία διαφυλάσσονται σύμφωνα με την κείμενη νομοθεσία για την προστασία των προσωπικών δεδομένων, και προστατεύονται με διάφορες τεχνικές μεθόδους, ώστε να μην είναι επιτρεπτή η πρόσβαση τρίτων στα στοιχεία αυτά, εκτός εάν οι ίδιοι οι χρήστες συγκατατεθούν διαφορετικά εγγράφως συμπληρώνοντας θετικά το σχετικό tick-box στις αντίστοιχες φόρμες υποβολής προσωπικών δεδομένων ή αποδεχόμενος με όποιο άλλο τεχνικό μέσο τη δυνατότητα πρόσβασης τρίτων στις οικείες φόρμες υποβολής στοιχείων. Σε κάθε περίπτωση οιοσδήποτε χρήστης έχει δικαίωμα ανά πάσα στιγμή να ζητήσει την διαγραφή των στοιχείων του από το τηρούμενο αρχείο μας. Επίσης, γνωστοποιούμε στους επισκέπτες ότι τηρούμε στοιχεία για την επισκεψιμότητα του website της για στατιστικούς σκοπούς, τα οποία όμως στοιχεία τηρούνται ανώνυμα και δεν εξατομικεύονται ανά επισκέπτη."
Αποθήκευση streaming ή άλλων media:
Σε περίπτωση που οι χρήστες έχουν πρόσβαση σε υπηρεσίες streaming media, απαγορεύεται αυστηρά ή με οποιαδήποτε τεχνική μέθοδο αποθήκευση του stream σε τοπικά μέσα κάθε μορφής, εν όλω ή εν μέρει, στην ίδια ή σε άλλη μορφή αρχείου ήχου ή εικόνας (π.χ. wav, wma, mp3, mpeg κλπ) που υπάρχει σήμερα ή θα εφευρεθεί στο μέλλον. Απαγορεύεται επίσης η απόσπαση και αποθήκευση (download) από το website σε τοπικά μέσα (μηχανικά ή ηλεκτρονικά) φωτογραφιών, λογοτύπων, κειμένων, animations, gifs, ήχων, εικόνων γενικώς, στατικών ή κινούμενων, κλπ, εκτός εάν τούτο ρητά επιτρέπεται και στο μέτρο που αυτό ρητά επιτρέπεται, σε κάθε συγκεκριμένη ιστοσελίδα.
ΑΠΟΔΟΧΗ ΟΡΩΝ:
Η επίσκεψη στο website μας, συνιστά ανεπιφύλακτη αποδοχή των όρων αυτών.
