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Re: BrickLink's plight recognized in the news.
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Date: 
Wed, 27 Feb 2002 01:50:48 GMT
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In lugnet.market.brickshops, Alfred Speredelozzi writes:

"EBAY MAY MEAN NO OTHER BAYS
While many have debated what eBay actually means, to one Web
site it means that they can't use the word "bay" in their
site.  Brickbay.com, a lego-trading site, has changed its
name to bricklink.com after eBay warned the site owner that
its prior name infringed on eBay's trademark."


Just a few weeks lake to help out brickbay, http://www.chillingeffects.org/
just went live.

Anyone interested in the abuse of trademarks and copyright to stifle free
expression should check it out.



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  BrickLink's plight recognized in the news.
 
Ok, so it was a *very* short blurb on C|Net that you can find here: (URL) this blurb was noted by an email news clipping service run by a fairly famous intellectual property lawfirm (BNA). So, it is likely that many thousands of IP lawyers are (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.mediawatch) !! 

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