1 posted on
09/06/2002 11:27:44 PM PDT by
ledzep75
To: ledzep75
I didn't see the driver's licenses for illegal aliens up for sale. I guess they must be free as long as you and all of your dead relatives vote for Gray-Out for Gov in November?
To: ledzep75
BrickBay, a site dedicated
solely to the buying and selling of individual (yes, individual)
LEGO bricks and LEGO sets recently had to change its name to BrickLink, because eBay bullied it into submission.
So yes, eBay goes after everyone.
However, a eGray.org, I was able to find a good deal on several used sodomy laws, tickets to Hairspray on Broadway, and an old hairbrush.
3 posted on
09/06/2002 11:47:20 PM PDT by
paulklenk
To: ledzep75
Didn't the dykes that run ebay give big money to some gay group....someone must remember this...
To: ledzep75
They have every right to go after the other auction sites that are clearly trying to falsely associate themselves with eBay, but parodies have wide latitude in the US. Unless eGrey is actually running real auctions on stuff, I can't see how eBay could ever win this suit.
5 posted on
09/06/2002 11:57:36 PM PDT by
Timesink
To: ledzep75
Hey, where's the beef?
6 posted on
09/06/2002 11:59:13 PM PDT by
Slyfox
To: ledzep75
KOOL...the more ebay huffs and puffs, the more people will go to the site.
GET IT ON eBAY!
7 posted on
09/06/2002 11:59:50 PM PDT by
Drango
To: ledzep75; *calgov2002; Carry_Okie; SierraWasp; Gophack; eureka!; ElkGroveDan; ...
To: ledzep75
eBay cannot and will not win this suit. Parody is protected and does not violate trademark or copyright. This site is not running a real business and is not trying to sell anything. A person COULD NOT get confused and buy something from eGray thinking it was eBay because nothing there is really for sale. Plus it is political speech and the courts aren't going to touch that one unless they go liberal activist hunting and even they are unlikely to shut down a political parody.
eBay knows all this, they know that parody is protected. They have good lawyers. The only reason for doing this that I can think of would be to distract the Simon campaign and get it spending its money on lawyers. Hmmmmmmm.
9 posted on
09/07/2002 1:08:55 AM PDT by
Arkinsaw
To: ledzep75
I am so sick of these Intellectual Property claims ; so now nobody can use the word "bay" ,this is stupid.
To: ledzep75
hahahahaha this site is a hoot!
To: ledzep75
This has taken much longer to materialize than normal. I wonder if the brass at Ebay agrees with Simon on the disdain for Doofus...
To: ledzep75
Most federal judges are likely to come down on the side of the First Amendment protections on political speech in a case such as this, said Carl Oppedahl, an intellectual property lawyer with Dillon, Colo.-based Oppedahl & Larson. eBay might as well take it with a sense of humor, he said. The difference between egray and the sites ebay stopped were the other sites were actually auction sites for items, and egray doesn't sell anything. They won't be able to take it down, IMHO.
18 posted on
09/07/2002 7:23:09 AM PDT by
Gophack
To: ledzep75; AmusedObserver; chnsmok; Ritwngr; ElkGroveDan; sfwarrior; Lady In Blue
This thread is an EXCELLENT follow-up of the EARLIER threads about eGray, posted here as the story developed:
and
20 posted on
09/07/2002 7:34:11 AM PDT by
RonDog
To: ledzep75
I haven't read all replies on this thread...so if I'm stating the obvious or being redundant, I apologize. But,
Think maybe the folks that run eBay are Davis supporters?
To: ledzep75
Thanks for the link. Hilarious!
To: ledzep75
I caught the tail end of Tony Snow talking about the eGray site yesterday on Fox News! This is great. Free advertising!
To: ledzep75
"Our attooneys will determine what the appropriate step will be," spokesman Kevin Purse-in-glove Get lost eBay, you don't have a point.
To: ledzep75
eBay should save its money. The election will be over in two months anyway, and they're not going to get action in that amount of time.
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