AIPAD President Robert Klein described AIPAD as "a membership organization" to an auditorium full of witnesses at the Thomas Struth talk on the morning of Sunday, February 9, 2003. And any member of a membership organization who does not formally and publicly disassociate him- or herself from documented public behaviors, actions, and statements of other members thereof -- including, if necessary, its elected officers -- is commonly and appropriately assumed to endorse, or at least tolerate, such behaviors, actions, and statements.

However, to my surprise, I learned that AIPAD members lack a venue in which to discuss this matter. The AIPAD website is not available to its members for such discourse -- not even in a password-protected members-only chat room. Therefore, in the interest of fairness, full disclosure, and open dialogue, and to make this as easy for them as possible, I decided to make available at my website as much public space as necessary for individual AIPAD members or any groups thereof to post responses to my comments and questions. I sent notification of this offer to AIPAD President Robert Klein, AIPAD Executive Director Kathleen Ewing, and AIPAD Board member Charles Isaacs on February 10, 2003, for circulation to the membership at large. The results appear below.

I will not edit, shorten, or censor those responses in any way, but will post them exactly as received.

Additionally, I want to indicate that I consider any AIPAD member who publicly takes a stand here or elsewhere in opposition to attacks on the the rights of makers of intellectual property rights as an exception to my comments about AIPAD as a whole.