It should be noted that the wbai.net web site has been operating for years and the claim below that it was just discovered by Pacifica Management seems other than completely honest.
Subject: {FP} www.wbai.net domain name under attack by EBG, Pacifica
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 16:55:00 -0500
From: "Lyn Gerry" <
redlyn@loop.com>
Reply-To: freepacifica@recordist.com
www.wbai.net domain name under attack by the Pacifica Foundation/Epstein Becker & Green
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 17:27:17 -0500
From: "Daly Temchine (Fred Kriesel)"
To: patty@inch.com
Subject: Patty Heffly desist letter -
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February 10, 2001
CERTIFIED MAIL
RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
Patty Heffley
WBAI Listener Network
511 West 20th St., #4
New York, NY 10011
Re: Unlawful use of the WBAI Trademark
Dear Patty Heffley:
We are counsel for Pacifica Foundation, owner of the trademark and trade name, “WBAI.” Use of this mark by our client dates back many years.
It just has come to our client's attention that you have registered the “WBAI.net” domain name with the InterNIC organization through Network Solutions, and that you are maintaining a Web site with that domain name. Such domain name registration, and use thereof, constitutes blatant trademark infringement, unfair competition, dilution, and other causes of action under state and federal law. In addition, your domain name registration and Web site use restricts our client from conducting business on the Internet under its own name, is likely to cause confusion, and dilutes the distinctive quality of our client's famous marks, among other wrongs. Recent court decisions have made clear that the manner in which you have registered “WBAI.net” and misappropriated our client's trademarks constitutes a clear violation of our client's rights.
Accordingly, on behalf of our client, we hereby demand that you immediately cease all use of any domain name, on or in connection with your Web sites, or otherwise, that infringes our client's trademark rights; effect transfer of the domain name to our client by completing the appropriate template of Network Solutions; and that you relinquish all rights to the domain name.
In the absence of your response in accordance with the foregoing by February 14, 2001, appropriate action will be taken against you to enjoin your use of the domain name and retrieve the domain name from you. We will also consider seeking temporary, preliminary and permanent injunctive relief, as well as damages for the harm suffered and which continues to be suffered by our client, together with attorney fees because of the wrongful deprivation caused by your illegal use of our client's registered trademark and trade name.
cc: Pacifica Foundation
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