Karin Spaink [SEP] occupation
Karin Spaink
Karin Spaink (born December 20, 1957 in Amsterdam) is a journalist, writer and feminist.
Spaink is a free speech advocate and social critic. Some of her subjects are:
- New-age writers who assert all diseases are only a psychological phenomenon;
- The Church of Scientology, who sued her for more than ten years;
- Opposition to a U.S. court decision which took down an anti-abortion site that contained names, addresses, photos and personal data of abortion providers
documents.
The church allowed a Dutch notary to compare the church-copyrighted documents with the texts on Spaink's homepage. Through her lawyers, Karin Spaink received a copy and started rewriting her homepage, just a week away from the court date for handling the motion for summary judgement. Spaink replaced the contested documents with an analysis of the documents, quoting liberally, but not too liberally from them; Dutch copyright law does not have a fair-use provision, but allows quotation for purposes of scientific dissemination. A representative