FC: Fox's Bill O'Reilly wants oreilly-sucks.com to cease and desist

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[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]

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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


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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

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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/




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