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From: ended@ebay.com
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:05:42 PDT
Dear owen*and*emma,
Thank you for your recent auction-style listing on eBay. Unfortunately, we removed the following item(s):
4892889618 - DAMON SUCKS onesie BOUTIQUE Custom YANKEES SOX HATE
because Scott Boras Corporation reported it to us for violating their intellectual property rights. When eBay is notified by a
rights owner of an intellectual property rights infringement, eBay must remove the item in order to meet certain legal requirements.
The following information may help explain the reason for your listing(s) removal:
eBay prohibits some types of material that use celebrity names or images. In some cases these items are also prohibited by law.
Collections of photographs and images of celebrities often involve both intellectual property rights (like copyrights) and rights
of publicity (a person's right to control commercial use of his or her image, likeness, etc.). eBay members must be certain that
their postings comply with third party copyrights and/or rights of publicity.
A celebrity or their representative has notified eBay that this item violates their right of publicity (a person's right to control
commercial exploitation of his or her image or likeness). Rights of publicity are a kind of intellectual property. When eBay is
notified by an intellectual property rights owner of an intellectual property rights violation, eBay removes the posting in order
to meet certain legal requirements. Please check with the celebrity or their representative if you have any questions about their claim.
For more information on Right of Publicity visit the following Help page:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/confidence/vero-rights-owner.html
To review a tutorial pertaining to this policy, please visit the link below:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/tutorial/verotutorial/intro.html
Questions about the specific violation should be addressed to Scott Boras Corporation at the following email address: ebay@borascorp.com
Your eBay fees for this item have been credited to your account. All bidders on this item have been notified of its cancellation.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Repeated violations of this or other eBay policies may result in the suspension of your account.
eBay understands that it can be frustrating to have a listing removed. If you have further questions, you can take the following steps:
Take eBay's brief tutorial on Intellectual Property Policies and VeRO
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Regards,
eBay Trust & Safety
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