
Long-time readers will remember that for more than a decade Gates of Vienna has reported extensively on the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Beginning in 2009, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff and Henrik Clausen worked tirelessly to expose the growing Islamization of the organization. They attended OSCE “Human Dimension” conferences in Warsaw and Vienna to make interventions (short presentations) and hold side events. In later years they were joined by other Counterjihad stalwarts, including Alain Wagner, Dave Petteys, Maj. Stephen Coughlin, Clare Lopez, Katie Hopkins, and others.
Last Friday I received the following letter as a PDF attached to an email from the OSCE (sent by Daniel Stirrat, a Legal Assistant in the Office of Legal Affairs). Interestingly, although it arrived here in the afternoon of December 11, well before midnight CET, it is dated December 12:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Office of Legal Affairs Vienna, 12 December 2020
To whom it may concern,
It has come to the attention of the Secretariat of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) that there has been unauthorized use of OSCE’s trademark, including the OSCE emblem and name, on your website. For ease of reference, please see the following examples:
- https://gatesofvienna.net/2011/10/esw-liveblogging-in-vienna
an article from your website dated 28 October 2011- https://gatesofvienna.net/2015/05/the-word-that-wasnt-there/
an article from your website dated 28 May 2015- https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/10/enforcing-marxism-and-sharia-in-the-name-of-tolerance/
an article from your website dated 2 October 2019Please note that the OSCE’s name in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish, its abbreviation in all those languages and its emblem are the exclusive property of the OSCE, protected under Article 6ter of the 1883 Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (as amended), and were duly registered with the World Intellectual Property Organization on 31 August 2001. As such, they may not be copied, reproduced, displayed, or used without the express prior written permission of the OSCE.
The OSCE has not consented to the use of its trademark on your website. Any engagement on your side in OSCE activities and/or events does not constitute such consent. In light thereof, you are requested to remove the OSCE trademark from your website immediately and refrain from using it in the future without obtaining the prior express written consent of the OSCE.
Thank you in advance for your co-operation.
Yours sincerely,
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Stephen Walsh,
Head of the Office of Legal AffairsGates of Vienna
gatesofvienna{at}chromatism{dot}net
Wallnerstrasse 6
A-1010 Vienna, AustriaTel:
+43-1-51436-0Fax
+43-1-51436-6996pm@osce.org
osce.org
I had not been aware that the OSCE was an industry, and that it was therefore covered by the 1883 Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. To rectify my error, I immediately went through all the OSCE posts and replaced all instances of the OSCE™ logo with the one shown at the top of this post. Then I wrote the following reply to the OSCE: