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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:28:50 -0700
From: "Jeffrey St. Clair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: cp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: eBay Yanks Bloody Condit Artwork
http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-000060870jul26.story?coll
EBay Pulls Art Item at Request of Condit Internet:
Congressman's office says his intellectual property rights
were violated in collage about intern's disappearance.
By DAVID STREITFELD, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Online auction house EBay Inc. said Wednesday that it had
removed a piece of art for sale about the disappearance of
Chandra Levy because of a complaint by Rep. Gary Condit
(D-Ceres), who said it violated his intellectual property
rights.
"We were contacted by a representative from the
congressman's office in Washington. . . . He believed the
item was 'a violation of the congressman's right of
publicity, based upon the use of his name or image,' " said
EBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove.
In the artwork, near the Condit photo is a cutout of an ax
dripping blood. Sprinkled around the montage are words such
as "thou shall not be a hypocrite," "missing" and "The media
is to Chandra what piranhas are to guppies."
[...]
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