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Pastimes : Business Wire Falls for April Fools Prank, Sues FBNers -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (1567)	5/4/1999 2:40:00 AM
From: Cindy Powell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3795

Bill, the legal standpoint is thus: (From Deborah's email communication) 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 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. So...Business Wire endorsed your press release with it's trademark, and your creation thusly became protected by Business Wire's copyrights. Your creations thusly can be understood as becoming the intellectual property of Business Wire. This is pretty simple minded stuff. Common sense stuff, actually.