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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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.mediawatch) !! 

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