Can of Worms…

This is getting good! I told you to stay tuned. Matt at Blog Media believes he is going to be able to bully me to take down MY OPINION about Cowboy and how unoriginal and quite possibly “theft” of an idea and look for the design of their webpage.

Mr. Marquart:

You’ve posted material on jaob.wordpress.com in regards to our corporations’ actions accusing us of design theft and other patently untrue material.

I am asking that you remove this material immediately and post a retraction or we will turn this matter over to our corporation’s counsel for action.

I do not take issue with you expressing your opinions about us, our sites, our employees, or our contractors – I do take issue with public statements that are harmful to our corporation that are patently untrue. In addition, you are referencing our trademarked corporate name in a manner that violates federal law.

I appreciate you taking care of this issue before it becomes something more serious.

Sincerely,
Matt Craven
VP, Online Services
BlogMedia, Inc.

So…What do I do? Nothing!

My blog is named just another opinion blog. I never said I had proof, and I do not know that what I am saying is a false statement. I made an observation and asked that it should be investigated. So, this could and should have been easily shrugged off.

Although I am confident I have nothing to worry about I am glad I am a contributing member of the EFF, because I will email them a transcript of what I said just to cover all my basis. I am sure Matt read the guidelines of libel before emailing me, but if he hadn’t here is a link. I wonder if Blog Media also thought of the “can of worms” they are opening. My reason for the post was because they have pointed out the same of others. I was just pointing the finger back at them.

Just within the hour!

Mr. Marquart,Your use of the trademarked term “BlogMedia” to disparage our corporation is a violation of federal trademark law. Your accusations of design theft are libelous under both state and federal law. The rest of your post is indeed opinion and we have no concerns with those whatsoever.We’ll turn this matter over to corporate counsel in the morning – you can deal with our attorney.Matt

I would advise Matt not to turn this into his attorney, he will be wasting money. From the TWO things I have read, I have not violated any of his companies rights of trademark. Matt, you also have to have Blog Media trademarked to sue for me breaching that trademark. I also have not claimed or tried to say I was Blog Media. Hey it is your dollar!

Can’t Keep Up With It

A Jack of All Blogs » Libel Slander Lies and Hatred

David has gone off the deepend, he is talking about himself. They say, when a reporter becomes the story there career is over. With blogging it must be when you start writing about yourself…

I also don’t know how someone can sell a blog and then expect to have a podcast with the same name. Wait we are talking about Cowboy. At least Cowboy is telling the purchaser ahead of time about his pouching tactics.

Good for you Cowboy!

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