Apple Has eBay Kill Off Auctions Of Steve Jobs Figure It Doesn't Like
from the is-this-really-worth-it? dept
Remember, a few weeks back, how Apple went after a Chinese company making Steve Jobs figurines and forced it to stop selling them? As you might expect, the attention from the legal threat only served to create much more interest in the figurines, and the few folks who got their hands on them before the offering was shut down, quickly moved to eBay, where they started selling for thousands of dollars... until Apple complained and eBay killed all of the auctions under its VeRO program. This actually strikes me as a bit odd. I could see Steve Jobs making the request, but should eBay listen to a company that requests a takedown of an individual's likeness, even if that individual is the company's CEO? After all, Apple does not own Steve Jobs' likeness...
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Filed Under: figurines, publicity rights, steve jobs
Companies: apple, ebay
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Bodyguards wanted
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As for the company being told to stop, I'm very surprised they're not running to their government to ask for protection against anti-trust, monopoly, and legal threats from businesses.
Perhaps this is the only way such issues can be corrected, given education fails in the US Congress... daily.
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Meh
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No, the head isn't big enough. :)
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For anyone to say "what's the harm" shows that their likeness has no value. It is a company trying to make money off of someone else's likeness and popularity without considering if they want to be part of it or not.
How hard is that to understand?
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Wonderful
Apple...still run by two-year-olds!
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The Free Market at Work?
PS: The "correct: solution? Apple buys all the figurines.
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Change you're twitter display picture?
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maybe they do
or maybe they do...
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Lot of fuss about nothing
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