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[This letter appears legit, based on my conversation with a woman who identified herself as Ms. Brandi's assistant. Note that O'Reilly is claiming that his "civil rights" were violated by the existence of the oreilly-sucks.com site. --Declan] --- Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 11:08:40 -0400 From: "Paul Levy" <PLEVY@citizen.org> To: <declan@well.com> Subject: Another nastygram over a gripe site..... One of my colleagues pointed this out to me: http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/images/foxletter.jpg The web site does not currently have any apparent appeal for the purchase of advertising, as described in the demand letter. Whether it had pone at the time the demand letter was sent, I have no idea. Paul Alan Levy Public Citizen Litigation Group 1600 - 20th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009 (202) 588-1000 http://www.citizen.org/litigation/litigation.html --- Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 12:43:32 -0400 To: declan@well.com, dan@dlewis.net From: Wendy Seltzer <wendy@seltzer.com> Subject: Re: FC: Major League Baseball reportedly assails NY Yankees fan site Cc: politech@politechbot.com We at ChillingEffects.org are very interested in hearing from recipients of cease and desist notices like these, especially to follow trends such as the recent wave of MLB threats. It's distressing when organizations confuse fans' appreciation with trademark violations, and we'd like to help explain the law and document the scope of the community that heavy-handed enforcement is affecting. Chilling Effects is a collaboration of law school clinics and the EFF to support lawful online activity against the chill of unwarranted legal threats. Our database of notices and notice-input forms are at <http://www.chillingeffects.org/>. Thanks! --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.com Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: http://www.chillingeffects.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
