[thelist] Logo Design (infringement) help requested

[Lisa Sinervo]

Belinda, I think you also need to consider that you, I assume, have a
contract to provide a service to your client and would likely be in breech
of that by taking his site down.  Not being a lawyer, but having taken
several business law courses, this would be of the biggest concern to me.
It's not the place of a host to be the judge of who is guilty of dubious
claims copyright infringement.  In good faith you are hosting the site,
until the courts decide or the parties come to an agreement, I think you
have an obligation to continue to do so.  I'd be furious if my host took
down my site based upon the claim of an unknown third party.

Lisa

----- Original Message -----
From: "Belinda Johnson" <belinda at prodsol.net>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 6:20 AM
Subject: RE: [thelist] Logo Design (infringement) help requested


> > It may just be me, but frankly the
> > "hypnosis center" or "hypnotricks" (or whatever) racket just kind of
> smacks
> > of spamminess. But then your client is trying to sell gas masks and
hazmat
> > suits.
>
> Well, that sentence to me sums it all up in a nutshell - I totally agree.
I
> have been uncomfortable with this "product line" since I first learned she
> was developing the site, and so has she. Should have gone with my gut
> instincts right from the start before we agreed to host it. I'd like to
say
> that if someone off the street, out o the blue, who I had no previous
> business relationship with, came to me with a request to host this I would
> not have given it a second thought (not to do so). But because I "know"
the
> client & his designer and he has an existing relationship, I caved.
>
> Another lesson learned.
>
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