Ebay doesn't even attempt to verify any of intellectual property
complaints they receive. They just delete the "offending" listing
automatically as part of a lawyer-mandated official cover-our
corporate-ass policy. They could give a hoot if the complaint has any
merit or not (which this one clearly doesn't anyway).
This sort of idiocy is just a tiny part of the price we pay for letting
corporations and their lawyers run our world and our lives.
As for recourse, no one should even bother trying to change Ebay's mind
when they pull this stunt. Like I said, they don't care. They only want
to be able to say to the complainant and their lawyer: "We immediately
pulled the listing you cited." The best thing to try to do will be to
wait a couple of weeks and simply re-list the TARANTULA half sheet
(which is a nice one) but this time with no mention of the "Mara Corday"
or any of the other stars in the title or description. You have to leave
the photo of the poster, of course. But without the name in the title or
description, the Ebay robots (both mechanical and human) may not notice
or care anymore. But, if they've actually got a live person monitoring
your new listings right now (unlikely but possible) then it might get
pulled again. But if they did that, *then* you could file a protest and
say, quite correctly that "nowhere in my listing did I used the name
"Mara Corday". That might force someone with half a brain to actually
look at your listing and realize that a picture of a poster with her
name in tiny print as a legal part of the original poster is not in any
way, shape or form intellectual property infringement.
-- JR
McDaniel Kirby POP wrote:
One more frustration with ebay. How do you correct this? Is there
recourse, David?
Kirby McDaniel
On Aug 7, 2009, at 7:13 PM, jbirddouglass wrote:
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