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(...) Actually, they have plenty of legal ground. Again, similarly, I am not a lawyer. (And also a Canadian!) But I have been to lectures about intellectual property, and it is my understanding that trademark infringement is based on similar service (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.general)
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You know, I must just have not been paying attention. I never even thought of the association there, the fact that they both end in "Bay". Seems to me like this case being the same as the one where McDonalds sued a small Irish pub in Dublin for (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) Whatever they do, DO NOT offer to sell them the domain. That sort of behavior is one of the reasons the UDRP process has to determine if you registered the name in "bad faith." My personal opinion is that Brickbay does not infringe on eBay's (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) You'll have my endorsement. Adrian (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.general)
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I agree with Tim. We should organize a letter of complaint threatening to Boycott. Many would definitely participate. -Kyle PS..thanks LUGNET for allowing this discussion. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.general)
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(...) I think it's a bit luck-of-the-draw as to which "editor" reads it. I've only ever had 1 story accepted 8?( ROSCO FUT off-topic.geek (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.general)
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(...) May get added to Quickies. Taco lurks here now and then so I would bet he is aware of the situation already. You could mail him direct and ask. He has been known to be nice on one or two days of the year. [/:-) Best DaveG (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) Hi Jennifer I think that would be a fabulous idea. I havn't written it yet. But one project I have thought about would be an order builder. It would look at the components needed to make a specific MOC based on using all new pieces, either (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) I just submitted it too. It seems like it requires tons of people to submit anything before they will post it. I'm sure they'll reject it from me too, they reject everything I submit. (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.general)
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Hey guys. I've recently added many of the parts from the following sets: 7 Droid Escapes (URL) Ice Ramp Racers (URL) MTT (URL) Desert Skiffs (URL) 3402 (URL) prices are generally below average. Take a look! -Jon -- | The Galactic Shipyard - (URL) My (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) ( speculating idly ) I wonder if all the sites that eBay is challenging in this manor got together, might it possible to get class action status ? If so, then they could all combine efforts which might make it a fair fight after all. Ray (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.general)
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(...) Trouble is, unless he can find a lawyer willing to work pro bono, the cost to find out will be prohibitive. Best thing is probably to tell as many people as possible (in the media preferably). And tell eBay you'll boycott them if they don't (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.general)
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"r2" <lego@r2eng.com> wrote in message news:GqH4BA.Fzq@lugnet.com... (...) world (...) form (...) a (...) I don't think they have any legal grounds, but IANAL. I think it would be beneficial to organize a boycott of LEGO buyers and sellers on eBay. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.general)
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"Matthew Gerber" <matthew@digitaliris.com> wrote in message news:GqGwFq.Fz8@lugnet.com... (...) utter (...) and (...) use (...) Does anyone know if they really have any legal standing on this? It seems a bit far fetched to me. Rose (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.general)
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(...) Ever since I first heard of Brickbay I have been wondering why this hasn't happened sooner. It's so obvious that if there was no eBay, BrickBay would never have been called that. It's clearly a trademark violation. But as I posted on the forum (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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Yep, Minifigs are the biggie. I already have a little something that takes a peeron html page and converts it into tab-delimited. It does a good job on the colors, but the minifigs always have to be hand fixed. XML would be great (even without the (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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Jennifer, I'm thinking that the desire for this would be extremely great! ;) I'm assuming that you would be targetting this feature to users of Brickbay? If this is the case, I have a couple of questions / concerns about how this would be (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) YES! There is definitely some interest. Being able to do this would be very neat. -Jason +---...---+ Jason Spears Michlug - (URL) Page - (URL) Store - (URL) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) Wow...I just finished reading the thread in the BrickBay forum...what utter nonesense. A suggestion was made to register displeasure with eBay over this issue, and I agree. An organized boycott (another suggestion) would likely do a world of (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.general)
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I see no one has yet posted it here... I think: (URL) like Brickbay may have to move!? Conserned Brickbayer, Boycotting eBayer... Josh (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops) !!
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