FC: Ebay yanks Gary-Condit-with-axe art at congressman's request

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

*********

Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:28:50 -0700
From: "Jeffrey St. Clair" <sitka () home com>
To: cp <counterpunch-list () counterpunch org>,
        Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
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."

[...]




-------------------------------------------------------------------------
POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list
You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice.
To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html
This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/
-------------------------------------------------------------------------