I would be a little careful about relisting the poster. Once you have
committed a "violation" you run the risk of suspension if you try and list
the same item again, irrespective of whether you use the name of the actress
or not. I'm not sure that it is worth taking the risk over just one poster.
Some time ago, Russell Crowe claimed to own the rights to any images which
appear on eBay and he used Vero to end many listings.
Regards
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Richard" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Mara Corday from TARANTULA gets a little carried
away....
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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