ASK: ADRiENNE SiOUX KOOPERSMiTH’s EXPLANATION:
Thursday,
September 12, 2013 - 2:42 PM CST
A very special thank you for featuring my
Plight is extended to Mr. E. Michael
Harrington, IP Consultant/Entrepreneur, Professor of Music, Music &
Entertainment Industry, Intellectual Property, Social Media & Technology.
www.Gplus.to/EMH who posted this on
paper.li
at
http://paper.li/emh2625/1327958445
As of September 12, 2013, 335
interested parties have read this Blog (released on February 21, 2013) that
will change the course of Modern Literature. Since my Intellectual Property
Attorney died on August 23, 2012, I have not been able to find a replacement
for him that would handle these 2 OPEN & SHUT CASES OF COPYRIGHT
INFRINGMENT in a pro bono manner
since The Smithe Brothers, owners of
11 furniture showrooms across the Chicago area and Skip Haynes, Songwriter of the 42 year old hit song, LAKE SHORE
DRIVE dubiously infringed on my copyrighted Material and placed those 2
separate Copyrighted Works for a total of 25 days on NBC WMAQ TV (Channel 5 – 1
of the top 3 televised broadcasting companies
in the USA).
HOW
DO YOU SPELL WIPED OUT? I received NO compensation; credit or name acknowledgement
yet they GOT EXPOSURE for nearly a MONTH on Material that was NOT theirs. This
is CRIMINAL.
Do you realize what it means to
have YOUR MATERIAL ON NATIONAL TV FOR 25
DAYS with NO COMPENSATION?
Because I am a Publicist/Promoter
(with Contacts galore culled from over 30 years of being in the Biz) and
because Haynes lives in Los Angeles,
the 2 parties (Haynes – Walter E.,
Timothy J. & Mark Smithe) would NEVER have even known of each other or
had been given this incredible Break as well as Material
if not for me.
Yet, I was rendered Homeless
because of their Doing because I WAS NOT
PAID whereby The Smithes and Haynes
clearly made a profit; got more name recognition; found new fans and clients/customers while I
lost my home of 22.5 years. This all began on January 6 of 2012. The nightmare is still going on.
As of September, 2013, I am
still looking for Legal Assistance and a savvy/adventurous Writer who can take my
Dilemma (one felt by every ARTIST who has ever lived) and get it into
syndicated and/or into 1 of the top 5 Newspapers
/ top 20 Magazines as a Cover Story in
the USA.
After all, what goes around
comes around.
In 2012, I penned a 200 page
Manuscript detailing how this transpired and the repercussions of how I
suffered and still am. Losing one’s home
is atrocious. I also am in need an Intellectual Property Attorney to work these
2 cases.
Please feel free to contact me
for any questions that you may have. These
Cases set a Precedence since they both involve a new Literary Format &
Genre that I introduced to the World on Wednesday, July 25, 1990 at 9:45 PM. Literary Thieves as Haynes & the Smithes deserve to be executed to the full extent of
the law, which is what I intend to do so others will not suffer as I have.
Sincerely,
ASK: ADRiENNE SiOUX KOOPERSMiTH
Koopersmith’s
Global Communications“People read what ASK writes about…”
Studio 1258
Chicago – Illinois USA
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TO REITERATE:
Dear Reader: Although I wrote this copy many months ago, it explains my Problem. I can update you on all the particulars. Merely contact me at:
askoopersmith(at)hotmail(dot)com
or via phone at: 847-630-9201. I live in Chicago, IL where we abide by CST. Please leave a message if (in case) my Cell Phone is turned off.
My Story of Copyright Infringement follows for your perusal. Feel free to share it with others who may be sympathetic as not only do I need an Attorney, but it is a great Human Interest Story on what happens to one of Chicago's Finest Talents and Humanitarians when her Copyrighted Material - culled from a lifetime of work is ripped off.
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SUBTITLE: How
an Intellectual Property Case catapults out-of-control.
EDITORIAL NOTE:
This Posting is directed towards pro bono Copyright Infringement
Attorneys who may wish to handle my case and/or reporters (editors and/or
publishers) who want a Lead Story that will increase their readership numbers
and show how Copyright Infringement is on the rise.
A SENSE OF URGENCY:
Because I may be losing my Home by February 28, 2013, this Piece needs
your immediate attention.
Facing possible eviction in one weeks’, I decided to
write and introduce myself to you in order to appeal my problem – a great story
in its own ‘write.’ Simultaneously, if
we ‘victims’ let it out, we feel much better. That’s why talk shows are so
popular. There’s something positive to
venting that lowers the stress and distress levels. If more folks did this,
there’d be much less crime on our streets – if you ask me.
AS WE ALL KNOW: The wheels of justice turn slowly. Not only have I been told this, I know this
for a solid fact since I have been searching for an IP attorney since January
6, 2012, but to ‘nearly’ no avail.
TO REITERATE: I hope you have moment to peruse my problem
as it is a very interesting Human Interest Story that has now gotten so out of control
that I may be evicted from my apartment any time after MARCH 1, 2013, because 2
sets of companies (one worth over $102,000,000 and the other estimated between
$10,000,000-$25,000,000) infringed on the Copyrights of 2 pieces of my Original
Material for a total of 29 days, airing them on NBC Channel 5 (who did NOT
check their facts as to ownership) without:
acknowledging me as its creator;
nor compensating me for its usage;
without giving credit and name recognition (as others
have) to me as ‘The Force’ behind this
incredible material; and furthermore,
misrepresenting and
misappropriating the theme of this copyrighted and well-honed material, thus
totally destroying its essences.
This all falls under the realm of Plagiarism and
Copyright Infringement.
AS BACKGROUND: From January 6-9, 2012, the Smithe Brothers
of Walter E. Smithe Furniture and Design (of Itasca, IL) stole and created
their own Video and TV Commercial from a packet of material I mailed to them 4
years earlier. I am known as:
‘America’s Premier
Eventologist’ per Gene Koprowski of Insight Magazine
(Washington, DC) –
August, 1997
&
‘The Premier
Eventologist in the History of the World’ per Eric Zorn of
The Chicago Tribune (Chicago,
IL) – January of 2001.
This means I have created 1,900+ HOLIDATES TO CELEBRATE that fall into 34 precise Categories. All are copyrighted. I created this new Literary Format on Wednesday, July 25, 1990 at 9:45 PM and am very proud of my Strides as I have been writing since I learned the Alphabet in 1959. I am a NBW: Natural Born Writer and I also promote people, places and all product(ion)s pop culture in nature that I find worthy and of interest.
This Concept exists under the auspices of:
EVENTOLOGY:
THE ART OF EVENT-MAKING
ADRiENNE SiOUX KOOPERSMiTH’S CAMPAIGNS FOR HUMANITY ©1990
Whereby Companies are to ‘buy into these HOLIDATES – to license them’ and I am to work these EVENTS
with them, being the Creator that I am and being a Local Personality in my
own ‘write’.
At the close of this Posting, a List of where my Writings appeared is posted. This legitimizes my Titles as delineated
above. As a Creative Writer who wears
many hats: This is my Legacy – and
something that is commercial – commercial enough to be made into 29 Days of Interstate TV Commercials which I will
elaborate on next:
I
had initially mailed the Smithe Brothers a press kit about my National Smith Day ©1995
(known as NSD) in 2007 but did not
hear from them. Therefore, I figured
they did not want to ‘hold said HOLIDATE.’
On
Friday, January 6, 2012 at 5:22 AM, I turned the Channel 5 Local TV on and NSD was airing on NBC which covers 4
states, and viewed by millions of people.
They ran my copyrighted Material through the entire weekend for 4 entire
days without payment, credit and/or acknowledgement. On the final day, I
visited one of their showrooms. On January 10, 2012 I called their headquarters
and spoke to Mark Smithe, one of the brothers.
Very arrogant as they are, he ‘blew me off’ and would not take any of my
future phone calls.
My
only recourse was to turn to the Lawyers
for the Creative Arts although in early January, I first contacted the
Attorneys on www.avvo.com. A
listing of IP attorneys in Illinois numbered at 44 at that time.
In
March of 2012 when I rechecked this site, the number had jumped to 55.
On
June 3, 2012, it reached 1,503.
As
of February 20, 2013, that figure hovers at:
1,260.
Evidently,
because of the Internet, this branch of the law has become very popular – but
all for the wrong reasons, of course.
I
began writing my case up as a Book in order to detail everything that has
happened so that others would not fall into this dilemma as well as the fact that
National Smith Day ©1995
is a popular EVENT that cannot be tampered with, misconstrued and misapplied. It has a Set Formula that only I have privy (t0).
LET IT BE KNOWN THAT:
Even if your material is copyrighted, it can still be stolen and the
Creator must take all action against the perpetrators.
FAST FORWARDING TO
MEMORIAL DAY OF 2012. I again turned Channel 5, NBC on and there
flashing across the screen was a script and liaison that I was fully
responsible for creating. In February of
2012 I began a correspondence with Skip Haynes, the songwriter who penned the
ever popular hit rock tune, LAKE SHORE DRIVE.
I had promoted 40 of Chicago’s top rock bands from 1979-1992 and his
lead singer was on my roster. Skip (now
living in Los Angeles) had rewritten the song to now be(come) SNOWED ON LAKE
SHORE DRIVE – because of the 5 feet of snow that we received from the Blizzard
of February: 2011. Because the song was
40 years old in 2011 and being the Promoter that I am, via a series of emails
that Skip and I were exchanging (from February – September of 2012), I told him
that the Song had to be televised for its Great Anniversary Date of 40 years, a
milestone indeed.
I
then took the initiative to write a series of commercials for him as well as
introducing him to the Smithe Brothers who were just ‘funky’ enough to ‘stage
and do this commercial.’ And yes, they
LOVED my Script, appreciated the Introduction and the Concept to produce it. Their Liaison which was due to my
Genius. This Commercial yielded them a
vast fortune, yet I received nothing.
AFTER ALL: There
was no way on G-d’s green Earth that Haynes (who resides in California) would
have been introduced to the Smithe Brothers (of Illinois, Itasca to be exact)
had it not been for me and my promotional and marketing efforts. This, of course, did not even include the
writing of the script(s) of which there were several that I composed.
I have retained copies.
Said
TV commercial aired on NBC for the Week of and surrounding Memorial Day;
the
Week falling around the 4TH of July (Independence Day); and
the
Week surrounding Labor Day.
This was a total of 25 days
(and is separate and apart from the National
Smith Day ©1995 copyright infringement case).
PROVING THEY HAD THE
MONEY TO ME: The Smithe Brothers went as far as renting
the Batmobile and another vintage racer from the Volo Auto Museum. Renting the Batmobile costs $4000 a day. Needless to say, I was totally eliminated
from this Commercial as well.
My
Savings Grace is that I do have an email in which Skip Hayes states he will
give 10% to me if anything transpires from my introduction of him to the Smithe
Brothers. I composed the scripts (according to the Smithe Brothers’ funky
personalities) and because of ME (alone) production of this Summertime TV Commercial
aired for 3 distinct periods of Time from Memorial Day through Labor Day on
NBC, one of the top 3 broadcast stations in the USA.
NBC
can also be sued for not checking their facts as to ownership of said material.
THE BOTTOM LINE IS: All should have known better.
THE BOTTOM LINE IS: All should have known better.
It
was not until August 9, 2012 that the Lawyers for the Creative Arts Legal
Director, Marci A. Rohlik - mrolnik@law-arts.org - found
an IP attorney who was fascinated with the case. After all, the Smithe Brothers
have an established reputation for stealing, plagiarizing and scamming – it’s
all over the Internet. Other material they may have stolen and produced as TV
Commercials include Jerry Seinfeld’s Bee Movie (in 2007) and Sarah Jessica
Parker’s Sex in the City (in 2008).
MY DEDUCTION IS THAT: The
Smithe Brothers thought they could do this TWICE
TO ME (a publicist and writer of international stature) within the same
year – only because they are worth $102,000,000 having 11 showrooms across
Illinois and Indiana.
Accompanied
by my editor, Robert E. Hofstadter. we visited Attorney Kurt Kolar at his office on Friday, August 17, 2012 at which time he said he would work my
case ‘pro bono.’ I signed a retainer statement
faxed to me on August 22. On August 30, a
sneaking suspicion overcame me that the Smithe Brothers and Skip Haynes would
again RUN the Lake Shore Drive/Batmobile Commercial as it is such a great
commercial for Summers in Chicago on Labor Day.
After I graduated from Washington University in 1974, I had a career in
the advertising field. This is what we call:
EVERGREEN. It’s a timeless commercial with lasting power and stands
apart from all others. My assumption is
that they plan to air the LSD/Batmobile Commercial again this year beginning
for Memorial Day Weekend of 2013, if NOT stopped beforehand, which is now my
mission.
I
want the Monies owed to me and The Smithe Brothers and Haynes punished to the
full extent of the law and NBC TV penalized.
Because
of this sneaking suspicion that Labor Day would also be used for the Smithe
Brothers & Haynes to MAKE LOTS OF MONEY without accrediting/acknowledging
ME, I emailed Attorney Kolar on Friday, August 31, 2012 but
the email bounced back.
On
Saturday, September 1, 2012, I again resent that email alerting Attorney Kolar to my hunch as Mr.
Hofstadter, my editor told me he saw the LSD/Batmobile on TV. Again, it was going to be aired for the last
Summer Holiday, Labor Day. But again, Kurt’s
email bounced back. Thinking he was very
popular since Copyright Infringement was on a rise, I googled his name and
there at the top of the page was his Obituary Notice.
I
was at the Evanston Public Library and I screamed. I was in shock for 3 total weeks. On August 23, 2012, Kurt had a fatal aneurism
and lost his life. He was only 44. Only 5 minutes before, he dropped his precious
and darling 4 year old son off at daycare.
I saw this child’s picture in his Dad’s office on August 17. According to his wife, he drove his car into
an embankment on the near west side of Chicago’s Loop and died instantly.
Yes,
his son could have been in that car – if not for the finger of the Lord saving
the young boy. I was totally livid. I
immediately contacted Mrs. Kolar
extending my sympathy and did retrieve my packet of material from his office.
From
that point on (at the end of August, 2012), I have no Attorney who can work my IP
case. Ms. Rolnik reworded MY CASE to
include the fact that I do have the STATEMENT from Skip Haynes that he would
give me Ten Percent (10%). However, I
see this as 2 individual cases:
CASE #1):
The Smithe Brothers (Walter E., Timothy J. & Mark) infringing upon
my material known as National Smith Day
©1995 – that has gotten
international exposure for me and is a ‘Thread’
in my title as ‘America’s Premier Eventologist.’ I am also a threat to every leading Card and
Calendar Company; and
CASE #2):
Skip Haynes (in conjunction with The Smithe Brothers, namely: Walter E.,
Timothy J. & Mark) who infringed upon my copyrighted TV script that was written
specifically for the hit song, LAKE SHORE DRIVE written by Skip Haynes in 1971
as well as the fact that it was my Vision and Introduction that made this 3
week long 4-state-wide TV Commercial a reality.
WHERE THIS “FIASCO”
STANDS TODAY.
I
lost tens of thousands of dollars and 'Exposure & Opportunities' money cannot buy.
I
lost the chance to have my name on this material (that was TELEVISED) so that
others in the 4 states (in which these TV commercials aired) could see who
wrote it. This would give other
businesses the ability to know me and contact me for MORE work.
THE HORRIFIC REPERCUSSIONS OF WHAT
COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT CAN DO:
The Worse
Case Scenario is happening to me currently:
Because
I made NO money in 2012 and because my apartment building of 22.5 years has
gone condo and now has a new owner, I have NO money – NO revenues in which to
move out. I have no money for storage. I only get $92 from the state for Food
Stamps. I am going to be losing my home
because of the repercussions caused by and snowball effect of what Literary
Thieves as Walter E., Timothy J. & Mark Smithe and Skip Haynes have
committed: This is what Copyright Infringement
can do. All due to the Greed Factor that these Corporate Americans pulled.
As
a Creative Personality, I have 1700 cubic feet of writing that I’ve been producing
and penning since I was kid. I have (only) 700 cubic feet of furniture. This
shows where my Passion lies. I am not
about to lose my home – to these furniture magnates and aging rock stars, by
cushioning and contributing to their empire all the more.
I
have already contacted Larry Wert, the General Manager/President of NBC/WMAQ
who tells me that the commercials also aired on other Stations. He’s trying to lesson his part in this
case.
I
have a pro bono Landlord/Tenant Attorney who is ‘negotiating’ with the new
landlord who bought my building. He
wants all tenants out (by February 28, 2013) so he can begin the condo
conversion. I am very sympathetic towards him, but I feel the Smithe Brothers
& Skip Haynes should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I should be fully reimbursed for the monies I
lost and for untold duress since January of 2012.
THE THREE GOALS OF THIS POSTING:
I feel this is a very interesting Human Interest Story that Magazines, Newspapers
and other TV Stations (as well as Radio Talk Shows) may want to feature –
possibly as an exclusive as it shows WHAT CAN HAPPEN when an IP case goes
horrifically wrong and the crooks get away ‘with murder’ – the murdering of
fine literature which we all enjoy as my HOLIDATES and Stories have done the last 22.5
years.
I
am also seeking an Intellectual Property Attorney (preferably based in Chicago where
I reside) who can work my case and ‘assumed’ any READER of this Missive may be
able to tell me of one as this is a very open and shut case. Every thing is documented.
I
also need a Job in order to get back on my feet. Although I am extremely creative and am very
healthy, I’m 60 and the markets and age discrimination are truly at work here.
IN CLOSING: 2012 was a hell of a
year. As my friend, RON RON, a CNN Video Producer in Japan states and I
paraphrase it: "Adrienne, you should be honored somebody thinks enough of
your material to put it ON TV." I know what RON RON is saying, but when my
Livelihood and God-given Passion is overtly stolen TWICE and leads to me losing
my home, I cannot think of anything more horrific to happen to a contemporary Writer
and Thinker as myself.
If
there’s any help you can give me, I would be so appreciative at this most
tumultuous time in my life! The clock is ticking away.
I need to have your Help before February 28, 2013.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
ASK: Adrienne
Sioux Koopersmith
Studio 1437
Chicago,
Illinois USA
847-630-9201
- Cell
847-448-0544
- VM
askoopersmith@hotmail.com
Facebook.com/Adrienne.Sioux.Koopersmith
PS: As previously stated here is that List of
where my Writings have appeared hich shows their credibility and popularity:
USA Today, The New York Times, The
Washington Post, Insight Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, Time
Magazine, ESPN: The Magazine; Fast
Company, Redbook, More Magazine, Woman’s World, Sports Illustrated For Kids,
Village Voice, Nickelodeon, The Times Picayune, The Gainesville Sun, The
Springfield News-Leader, Dave Egger’s Might Magazine, The Milwaukee-Journal-Sentinel,
The Detroit Free Press, The Daily Herald, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The
Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Advocate/Greenwich Time, The San Antonio
Express, The Dallas Morning News, Skyline, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Home
Cooking, Cooking Light, Chase’s Calendar of Events, The Daily Northwestern,
Popular Photography and Imaging, Shutterbug, Kennedy’s Confection (London,
England), Eric Cohen Books (Israel) and an Estonian Newspaper as well as an
endless Assortment of Websites, Blogs, Facebook Postings, ‘Tweets’ on Twitter and employing other popular Social
Networks since 1984. Besides being the
Guest on over 3,000 Radio Interviews (including The Voice of America since
1990), ABC, NBC, CBS & MSNBC Television Networks have also featured me for
my Creation of these Creative Words + Works.
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