Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:15:04 -0500
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: Re: MB: informations


Dear Yves-Elie Durand:

	You have some beautifully done graphics on your Blanchot site and I'm glad to
see that others are interested in providing access to those who wish to study
Blanchot.  However, it is clear that much and indeed most of what you have done
is simply to copy the bibliographies that I "conceived and implemented" (and
published) at my Maurice Blanchot Resource Page -- uncluding mistakes and (for
your site) useless links to translations.  Moreover, it's rather shocking to see
that you have claimed a copyright to the bibligraphies I pubished and indeed is
mind bogglingly that you copied and claim copyright to the text I wrote under
"News" and which you copied and published as "Books Forthcoming."  I find it
hard to see this a some enormous but innocent omission when you list two other
web pages dedicated to Blanchot but omit and reference to mine, which evidently
you have visited often and to great profit.  
	I would be happy to cooperate with you or anyone else that wishes to set up
mirror sites or even to cooperate on a common site, but as stated on the
HomePage of my Blanchot site
(http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/blanchot/blanchot_mainpage.htm),
redistribution of the materials I published at the Maurice Blanchot Resource
Page requires a) that it be free to the recipient (that criterion you meet), and
b) that PROPER ATTRIBUTION be made, that is, that you NOT pass off work that is
not yours AS your (which is what plagiarism -- "plagiat").  I would stress that
in copying my Blanchot site and republishing it as "conçu et réalisé" by Prof.
Gilles Ernst not only is intellectual theft from me, but from those whose work I
have drawn own and have been clearly and happily acknowledged by me; your site
makes no mention of any of these individuals.  
	Therefore I strongly object to your site as it stands and request that you
withdraw it until to expunge your copyright claims and acknowledge the sources
of your material.


Sincerely,
Reginald Lilly
Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY  12866
rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu


Yves-Elie Durand wrote:
> 
> Bonjour,
> 
> j'ai le plaisir de vous informer que le Groupe d'Etude sur Maurice Blanchot
> (France) présente un site non officiel sur l'écrivain et critique Maurice
> Blanchot : http://www.nancy2.u-nancy.fr/blanchot, réalisé, sous la direction
> du Pr. Gilles Ernst, par Yves-Elie Durand. Vous pourrez y trouver des
> informations biographiques et bibliographiques ainsi que des articles sur le
> penseur français, ami de Levinas et de Bataille, dans un site convivial
> quoique un peu long à télécharger.
> 
> Alors, un peu de patience et bonne navigation !
> 
> Yves-Elie Durand
> 
> e-mail : aymduran-AT-worldnet.fr
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : L J HILL <frrak-AT-snow.csv.warwick.ac.uk>
> À : blanchot-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
> <blanchot-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
> Date : mardi 20 janvier 1998 11:38
> Objet : Re: MB: informations
> 
> A biography (in French) of Blanchot is currently underway and is
> likely to appear later this year.
> 
> Leslie Hill
> 
> Leslie Hill
> Department of French Studies
> University of Warwick
> Coventry CV4 7AL
> tel: + 44 (0) 1203 523014
> fax: + 44 (0) 1203 524679
> e-mail: l.j.hill-AT-warwick.ac.uk