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To: John Sladek who wrote (1556)5/4/1999 2:22:00 AM
From: Bill Ulrich  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 3795
 
Beyond "is", BW's interpretation of trade, commerce, and unfair competition should be interesting. And then there's that pesky intellectual content matter. Their name aside, their presumption of control over our material is absurd. Note that they make the claim of the story text being their intellectual property. However, this was our originally authored material. Note that in the agreement, ( about.businesswire.com ), there is nothing that says "your originally authored content becomes ours to control". It is not a case of signing away our rights to our own material. We wrote it—we own it.

I bring it up for the benefit of those under the mistaken impression that the situation started with us being rude and them being nice. It was actually quite the opposite. Despite their presumption of control of our content, I politely took their name off at the earliest opportunity I could (3 1/2 hours after the first request).

-----Original Message-----
From: Deborah Pickering /NY <Deborah@bizwire.com>
To: jmitchelxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 1:15 PM
Subject: remove Business Wire name/news release version from your site

Dear Jeff,

This letter is to request that you immediately remove the Business Wire name and Business Wire copy of the news release from your Internet site, www.webnode.com.

The specific news release that you are being asked to remove is dated
April 1, 1999, with the headline, "Next Generation Internet Available
for Public Sale."

The Business Wire name is trademarked and news releases that are
carried on Business Wire are copyrighted. Thus, you are being asked to remove Business Wire's intellectual property from your Internet site. I would appreciate your advising me when this has been done.

Thank you for your cooperation and immediate attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Deborah Pickering
Vice President
Redistribution/Licensing
Business Wire - New York
212/752-9600 phone