  
| Author: | dreambuilder71  | | Posted: | Sep 24, 2022 14:06 | | Subject: | Re: Thank you Dan | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Announce | |
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| In Announce, popsicle writes:
| | In Announce, legoman77 writes:
| | In Announce, buildingfactory writes:
He did so much for so many and his legacy is here for all to see.
Dan did so much towards the joy of Lego.
Many might not know, but Dan was also a founder of Peeron.com. When the two
partners went their separate ways, Dan founded BrickBay. That became Bricklink
when eBay objected and threatened to take BrickBay to court over the name.
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I've long held thoughts on this which I'll keep to myself, other than
to say that some pushback would've been in order. The site in question from
early on, often acts as a bully. But as with most bullies, when you respond in
kind with your own attorney and the threat of litigation, they quickly cave.
These types of entities typically use the one page letter in shotgun fashion,
either from their legal department or law firm on retainer, to handle and quash
any perceived encroachments on their business. It’s unfortunately effective on
the little guy or small business. Never did see legal redress eBay imagined they
might’ve had with the name use.
| | A little later all shops with Lego in their name had to change their store names.
Same happened to eBay. So, no stores names can have Lego in it.
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I remember the debates on whether it should be extended to include usernames
too. Glad it wasn't further pushed, though. Wouldn't you agree, legoman77
-popsicle (not trademarked )
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eBay has NO right to the words Auction Bay! That has been around for centuries!
So if you want to have a company with the word Bay in it, it's perfectly
allowed and the judge would just laugh and throw out the case. And hopefully
the judge would make ebay pay for the other's legal fees and compensation
for inconvenience! They were just jealous of losing money to another website!
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Message is in Reply To: Message Has 3 Replies:  Re: Thank you Dan - 1001bricks (52501) | [...] Problem in those cases is the cost to defend yourself. So when eBay sends you a Registered mail from their lawyers, you may back up and don't take this risk. IMHO [...]
(21 months ago, Sep 24, 2022, to Announce) |
Re: Thank you Dan - miskox (627)  | [...] What do you say about Nissan and their fight against a person with his last name Nissan who happens to owe nissan dot com? Saso
(21 months ago, Sep 24, 2022, to Announce) |
Re: Thank you Dan - legoman77 (3628) | [...] When this all went down I was wondering if eBay asked San Fransisco Bay to change their name. John P
(21 months ago, Sep 24, 2022, to Announce) |
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