Good lord, then this makes even less sense than I thought because I just
ran a search of Ebay and found 41 *other* listing for variations on the
TARANTULA posters -- how come they haven't been pulled as well?
Madness... sheer raving lunacy...
http://entertainment-memorabilia.shop.ebay.com/s.html?_nkw=tarantula+poster
-- JR
[email protected] wrote:
the listing did NOT mention Mara Corday.......not in the
title.......not anywhere.
*David Lieberman**
*CineMasterpieces.com <http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/> | 15721 N.
Greenway Hayden Loop, Suite 105 -- Scottsdale, Az 85260
_Vintage Original Movie Posters__ | 602 309 0500 | Office/Gallery Open
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In a message dated 8/7/2009 9:38:41 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
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
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