[Ir-l] "Black Blocs for Dummies" website gets lawyer nastygram

[Paul Mobbs]

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Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 22:40:01 -0500
From: Chuck Munson <chuck at tao.ca>
Subject: Infoshop.org contacted over trademark infringement
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 >From the "Legal Departments with Too Much Time on Their Hands"

Department

November 5, 2001

Black Blocs for Dummies
Infoshop.org Served Cease and Desist E-mail Over Trademark Infringment

I've just received an interesting e-mail from the legal department of
Hungry Minds, Inc., publishers of the "For Dummies" series of how to
books. They seem to have taken umbrage over a page that exists on
Infoshop.org titled "Black Blocs for Dummies." The page in question
provides information on the "black bloc" tactic that has been used by
anarchists and anti-authoritarians at numerous protests in recent years.
This is the second cease and desist communication that Infoshop.org has
gotten in its nearly 7 years of existence.

As a website committed to the destruction of the idea of "intellectual
property," Infoshop.org will be exploring its options in coming weeks.

See the page in question:
http://www.infoshop.org/blackbloc.html

Chuck0
Infoshop.org


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