Public domain music score site shut down due to conflicts in copyright law

The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), a website devoted to preserving and sharing public domain music scores, has shut down after receiving a second Cease & Desist letter from Universal Edition.  The C&D was sent due to differences in laws...

Sample Cease And Desist Letters For Google, Mass Mutual, And American Express

The screenshot below displays the Cease and Desist order sent by Google to the owner of the Googlecalendar.com domain name.

ACLU Stepping in on Wendy 'McCaw Obey the Law' Dispute

CHICAGO The ACLU Thursday answered the "cease and desist" letter sent to a local businessman by lawyers for Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press owner and Publisher Wendy McCaw with a letter of its own -- demanding...

Digg Issues Cease and Desist to Diggdot.us

"Diggdot.us, a site that mashes up digg, del.icio.us and Slashdot, has received a cease and desist letter from digg's lawyers. Other similar mirrors have received the same. As a result, diggdot.us has changed its name to Doggdot.us, however, it continues to index digg's feed...

YouTube Sends Arrington a Cease and Desist Letter...'Bout Time Someone Tried ...

"Buried in my email this evening I found a cease and desist letter from an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, representing their client YouTube. We’ve been accused of a number of things:...

Utube Sues YouTube

""From The Age article: Universal Tube, which sells used machines that make tubes, has said it has lost business because customers have had trouble accessing its site." So now Utube is suing YouTube seeking a cease and desist on the youtube domain. (I wonder if they think...

Exciting video of better things than the FIFA World Cup

Some amusing antics from Boing Boing:"Timothy King created a hilarious video in response to pre-emptive cease-and-desist letter that asshat lawyers at Baker & McKenzie sent to Boing Boing. The video begins with stunning footage of a crumpled up paper napkin and ends with...

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