Interesting articles regarding Ebay and the ESPC

These links are to a series of two articles (so far) by InfoWorld columnist Ed Foster regarding the Embroidery Software Protection Coalition (ESPC) and their actions against EBay, embroidery design purchasers, and sellers who have violated trademark and copyright law.

In the first, dated Sept. 11, he describes some of the ESPC actions as an apparent "Shakedown Scheme", and takes issue with both their methods and their legal basis. But in reading this, remember that he is NOT a lawyer.

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?source=NLC-GRIPE2006-09-12The second article, dated Sept. 12, concentrates on what level of responsibility should be placed on EBay and Paypal regarding the marketing of protected materials and the amount of privacy protection that they can/should provide to their sellers and buyers.
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?source=NLC-GRIPE2006-09-12All good reading material. - Herb

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Hamfisted tactics aside, I've never understood how ANYONE can make money off digitizing and selling designs.....when one googles for machine embroidery designs, it comes back with from 5 to 7 million hits. Many of them with absolutely beautiful, free samples! From the small home digitizer to Pfaff, Bernina etc ..........the market is flooded!!!! Then there are those (me, being a notable exception) who do beautiful work with their home digitizing programs and some clip art. It seems like the business will probably go the way of the local print shop/photo developers....technology and the prices they must charge for their product will result in just a few of the "big boys" able to do it. The Wal Mart mentality will prevail.

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Beth

It is, if you own it. If all you bought was a license to use it, then you can't sell that. Read your contract.

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