Landmark Education Web site is located at www.landmarkeducation.com
2007
- October 24, 2007 Cults target college students in recruitment, Maxwell Nerenberg, The Daily Orange, Syracuse University, New York
...Cults almost always recruit by masquerading as reputable groups, and they might tell students they are an activist, self-improvement or religious group, said Carol Giambalvo, a member of the board of directors for the International Cultic Studies Association...
...Giambalvo said she was once a member of a cult herself, convinced she was joining a group to actually fight world hunger. She left the group, called the Landmark Forum, in 1983. Since then, she has co-founded a support group, called reFOCUS, to counsel former cult members. Ex-cult members often find themselves behind their peers in terms of education and careers because they were isolated from the outside world...
2006
- November 30, 2006 Self-Help Group Backs Off Attack on Internet Critic, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Landmark Forum Withdraws Subpoena for Identity of Anonymous Poster
San Francisco - A controversial self-help group has backed off its attack on an Internet critic after the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) intervened in the case.
Landmark Education, known for its Landmark Forum motivational workshops, served a subpoena for the identity of an anonymous user of Google Video last month, claiming that a French documentary posted by the user infringed Landmark's copyrights. The piece, entitled "Voyage Au Pays Des Nouveaux Gourous" (Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus), is highly critical of Landmark and included hidden camera footage from inside a French Landmark Forum event along with panel discussions about the group. The piece had also been posted with English subtitles on popular U.S. video sites YouTube and the Internet Archive.
In a settlement reached Tuesday, Landmark agreed to withdraw the subpoena to Google and end its quest to pierce the anonymity of the video's poster. Landmark has also withdrawn its subpoena to the Internet Archive. EFF represents both the anonymous critic and the Internet Archive...
- November 10, 2006 Google faces legal challenges over video service, By Eric Auchard, Reuters via Washington Post
...The film, entitled Voyage Au Pays Des Nouveaux Gourous (Voyage to the Land of the New Gurus), was produced by a French TV news program, Pi?ces Conviction. It features hidden camera footage shot inside a Landmark Forum event in France and a panel discussion on whether or not the organization is a "cult."
The video was posted on Google Video, YouTube and the Internet Archive, among other Web locations. Landmark's subpoenas seek to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to force Google Video and others to identify who posted the film.
Landmark, which was founded in 1991, is a descendant of the 1970s motivational guru Werner Erhard's EST training seminars...
- October 30, 2006 Self-Help Group Bullies Net Critics, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California
Landmark Forum Violates Constitution and Federal Law by Trying to Chill Speech
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is fighting a controversial self-help group's coordinated, illegal campaign to silence Internet critics.
San Francisco-based Landmark Education, known for its Landmark Forum motivational workshops, is trying to suppress an investigative television news piece critical of its methods. Landmark contends that the documentary infringes its copyright in the Forum course, while citing to copyright registration of the Forum leader's manual. Using the alleged copyright violation as a pretext, Landmark subpoenaed three websites hosting the video -- the Internet Archive, Google Video, and YouTube -- seeking the identities of the anonymous uploaders. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) allows a content owner to issue a subpoena for the identity of an alleged infringer without first filing an actual lawsuit...
...Landmark's efforts are being challenged on multiple fronts. The Internet Archive is fighting its subpoena, and EFF filed official objections on its behalf Friday. Later this week, EFF will...
- January 10, 2006 Suits Against Anti-Cult Blogger Provide Test for Online Speech, Charles Toutant, New Jersey Law Journal via law.com
Self-styled 'deprogrammer' says litigation is the price he pays for using the Internet to expose cult practices...
...Lawsuits are occupational hazards for anti-cult blogger Rick Ross.
Sued a half-dozen times during the past decade for his public pronouncements, especially on the Internet, he's managed to win all but one case, with the help of pro bono counsel. His latest close call came in December when Landmark Education, a promoter of self-help seminars, withdrew with prejudice its federal suit in Newark alleging defamation...
..."The fact that Landmark Education sued me was a testimony to the power of the Internet."...
2005
- December 21, 2005 Landmark Education Withdraws Lawsuit Against Rick Ross as a Result of Recent Court Decision, Press Release, Source: Landmark Education
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Landmark Education, an international training and development company, has withdrawn its lawsuit initiated in New Jersey against Rick Ross containing a number of claims regarding his statements and actions that have unfairly damaged their business and relationships with customers and prospective customers. Landmark Education's legal counsel withdrew the lawsuit as the result of a recent decision by the New Jersey Appellate Court, which decision impacted Landmark Education's claims against Ross. In light of this unforeseen development, Landmark Education determined that it was no longer feasible to pursue the claims against Ross and, based on this, the New Jersey court granted Landmark Education's motion to dismiss the case...
2003
- December 14, 2003 I thought I'd be brainwashed. But how wrong could I be... - The Observer, United Kingdom (UK) (It claims to be about self-improvement but it's been accused of exploiting the gullible, even of being a cult. Others say it transforms their lives. So what is the Landmark Forum? And what does it do? Amelia Hill decided to find out. What she discovered about the Forum - and about herself - will surprise you...)
- December 5, 2003 Turn up, tune in, transform?, Mary Braid, Independent News, United Kingdom
The Landmark Forum claims to change utterly the lives of its devotees - and it is spreading fast by their word of mouth. But are its 'breakthrough' sessions a good or bad thing? Some see it as education, and others as brainwashing...
- July 11, 2003 Briones trip rekindles criticism, by David Crowder, El Paso Times (County Judge Dolores Briones won approval from Commissioners Court to attend a three-day personal development seminar starting today in New York City, but the trip is drawing a new round of potshots aimed at her travel habits.
The $1,500 seminar is being conducted by Contegrity, an organization whose two founders hail from Landmark Education Corp., which has ties to Werner Erhard and Associates and the Erhard Seminars Training, better known as "est."...)
2002
- August 13, 2002 'Transformation' in a Weekend?, ABCNEWS.com by Oliver Libaw
Based on EST, the Landmark Forum Says It Can Help People Become Happier and More Productive
(Seven months ago, Chmela attended the Landmark Forum, an educational seminar that has drawn rave reviews from many participants, as well as unease from some observers...)
2001
- July 23, 2001 Mindbreakers, Daily Mail - London via Industry Watch (Landmark Education, The Forum, Werner Erhard and Est in the news.)
- July 9, 2001 Pay Money, Be Happy - New York Magazine (Landmark Forum, the Forum, Landmark Education Corporation, EST, Werner Erhard, 60 Minutes and the Church of Scientology in the news.)
2000
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