Advice to Corporations: Don't Send Cease & Desist Letters to Bloggers
Note to corporate lawyers: check with Communications before sending a cease-and-desist to a blogger.
Laughing Squid (via Consumerist) has posted a few times about Improv Everywhere’s faux sales clerk flashmobbing of Best Buy back in 2006. When Improv Everywhere made t-shirts with a parody logo (pictured above) to celebrate the stunt, the store sent a letter to the group, and also to Laughing Squid for “promoting” the infringement.
Laughing Squid has been incredibly patient with Best Buy, and has posted a carefully
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