August 19 [14:00 EDT] -- Oasis' crackdown on unauthorized use of copyrighted material on the Internet has apparently claimed its first direct casualty.

As we reported in June, the edict issued by the band to unofficial Oasis website managers demanding that all copyrighted material be taken off-line caused a number of such sites to disappear altogether.

However, word now comes from Jack Martin, the head of an ad hoc group of Oasis fan site producers, that the band's record label is going after a 17-year-old Oasis fan from Great Britain for his use of tracks form the band's upcoming "Be Here Now" album.

In a statement issued to many media outlets and posted on his website, Martin says that Sony and Creation Records filed an injunction against Derek Gorman after they learned that the teen was distributing sound files from the album on his website. Martin says the Oasis camp then went to Gorman's Internet Service Provider and had the fan's page shut down on August 12.

In defending Gorman, Martin claims that the teen originally downloaded the files from an official Sony Music site (in this case, Sony Music Brazil), where samples of "D'you Know What I Mean," "My Big Mouth," "Stand By Me," "Don't Go Away," and "All Around The World" are still available. Gorman and Martin contend that since the files are available from an official Sony site, the are not "unreleased material.

Martin says that Gorman signed a few legal documents, and now his site is back up and running, without the offending sound files, at www2.clearlight.com/~gorman/oasis.

While Gorman's use of Oasis soundfiles may have been benign, Martin also says that the Oasis crackdown netted one somewhat less well-intended site producer who had been allegedly selling copies of all or part of the new Oasis album.