From: Mayor <Mayor@launceston.tas.gov.au>
Date: Tuesday, 8 May 2018 at 12:48 pm
To: Ray Norman <raynorman7250@bigpond.com>
Subject: RE: The City of Launceston and The Moral Right of Cultural Producers
Hello Mr Norman,
Thank you for your e-mail correspondence.
I can advise you that Council staff have engaged with Mr Walker's widow in respect to the various sculptures he created for Civic Square, and that we will continue to work with her to ensure that the final orientation and location of Mr Walker's works is acceptable to the Walker family.
While I certainly appreciate the fact that you have brought this matter to our attention, I believe the aggressive tone of your e-mails was unnecessary and really only served to undermine the important message you are trying to deliver.
Regards
Mayor Albert van Zetten
City of Launceston
From: Ray Norman
<raynorman7250@bigpond.com>
Date: Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 2:52 pm
To: Albert <mayor@launceston.tas.gov.au>
Subject: FW: The City of Launceston and The Moral Right of Cultural
Producers
Dear Mayor & Aldermen,
My research in regard to this matter today suggests that
Council has indeed disregarded the rights of the author/artist, Stephen Walker,
in the actions it has taken and is taking plus the planning decisions it has
made and has acted upon.
If you are unable, or unwilling, to offer contrary evidence
by the close of business tomorrow I am left with no other option than to regard
the information I have received today as being “a fair and reasonable
assessment of the facts”. Indeed, the evidence appears to be pretty
clear and accountability would appear fall to you as aldermen given that the
issue at stake is a governance matter, not an operational matter.
I look forward to your early response.
Regards, Ray
From: Ray Norman <raynorman7250@bigpond.com>
Date: Wednesday, 2 May 2018 at 9:26 pm
To: Albert <mayor@launceston.tas.gov.au>
Subject: The City of Launceston and The Moral Right of Cultural Producers
Dear Albert & Aldermen,
Today as I drove past Town Hall I
noticed that Stephen Walker’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Walker_(sculptor))Thylacine
Diorama in Civic Square is being reconfigured. It seems to me that this may
well contravene the artists ‘moral rights’ unless his estate has
granted permission for that work and for it to continue to be attributed to
Stephen Walker.
Has that permission been sought?
Furthermore, could you please advise me upon what expert advice you and
council sought and relies upon under SECTION 65 in the decision making and
policy determination in respect to this matter?
In addition, this prompted a memory
of a report that an earlier work of Stephen Walker’s that was located towards
Macquarie House is to be moved to the North Bank development. Again, depending
upon how that is being done, Stephen Walker’s moral rights may also be in the
process of being violated. Has his estate been contacted and the
appropriate arrangements been made in respect to this work?
These matters are non-trivial and
City of Launceston’s Council as the custodians these works is encumbered with
certain obligations that it occurs to me Council may not have met. Can you
please provide me with evidence that the appropriate arrangements have been
made in regard to these works as soon as possible given that the ‘developments’
are currently in progress?
I look forward to your early
response!
Regards,
Ray
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