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How Not to Write a Cease-and-Desist Letter

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the love-seeing-bullies-get-bullied dept.

In our overly litigious society it seems that many companies are all too happy to fire off a cease-and-desist letter if they see something they don't like. Many times these letters end up online just causing further embarrassment for the company. One such company has decided to try scaring their targets out of this response by including a copyright notice for their cease-and-desist letter. Public Citizen has fielded one of these dumb letters and has invited them to try to assert their cease-and-desist copyright (which isn't even registered).

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  1. Re:Copyright registration by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Frankly, I need not prove what I say to some anonymous name on slashdot.

    And as for your authoritative source, did you know that IRS's papers are not authoritative, nor are they even law? Go read up on Tom Crier Vs. IRS.

    Who lost?

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  2. Re:Copyright registration by macsox · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    See everyone? This is how people with user IDs under 10,000 discuss - they know what they're talking about and, before flaming someone, do a little research first.

    A refreshing object lesson for us all.

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    go get it