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Terminal Boardumb => Non-Music Shit => Topic started by: three chord youth on November 08, 2006, 10:20:04 AM
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Dear so-&-so,
Thank you for your recent auction-style listing. You listed the following:
300040450738 - VINTAGE PUNK PINS Sex Pistols GBH Exploited Infa-Riot
Unfortunately, eBay removed your listing. All fees related to this listing have been credited to your account. We also notified members who placed bids on this item that the listing has been canceled.
The rights owner, Machete Manufacturing - Rancid, Operation Ivy, notified eBay that this listing violates intellectual property rights. When eBay receives a report of
this type of violation, we remove the listing to comply with the law.
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I listed some old pins I got free from an eBayer last week from a larger lot of 70s/80s pins. Didn't want them so I listed the stuff to get rid of it. It was all really old too. I don't get why my auction was removed exactly. Can you not put some band's stuff up for auction if someone's manufacturing it exclusively? That is total crap. Sod Machete Manufacturing. On Machete's page it looks like they sell GBH and Exploited crap. None of it was stuff I was selling though. What dicks. That's not punk at all to go around dictating like that about what you can and cannot sell. They probably pay someone minimum wage to just sit at a computer and check eBay all day for items that might interfere with their profits. Fucking fucked bitches.
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Funny. I wonder if they could prevent you somehow from selling old rancid t-shirts by claiming it's a 'copyright violation'
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They can if it was made without the band's authorization. This applies to anything unauthorized - shirts, buttons, bootlegs; however it goes artist by artist, actually management companies by management companies. I have had bootlegs pulled of Misfits stuff because Caroline complained & Neil Young stuff that was made while he was with Reprise, due to complaints from Reprise. However in the last few weeks I've sold bootlegs by Dylan and Genesis for good money.
My suggestion is that if you are gonna list stuff like that check closing autions to see if like auctions made it all the way through without getting zapped and/or list it with a buy it now at the price you want to sell it. Often this stuff doesnt get noticed til the last day of the auction.
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They can if it was made without the band's authorization. This applies to anything unauthorized - shirts, buttons, bootlegs; however it goes artist by artist, actually management companies by management companies. I have had bootlegs pulled of Misfits stuff because Caroline complained & Neil Young stuff that was made while he was with Reprise, due to complaints from Reprise.
You mean Geffen? He's still with Reprise.
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He went from Reprise to Geffin and then back to Reprise. Reprise is really territorial about the stuff recorded when he was with them. Geffin couldnt give a shit. I've sold boots of Geffin era stuff and had no problem.
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Do you still have those Neil Young boots? I'm looking for the one that has the studio version of "Powerderfinger" (Chrome Dreams?), the original sequencing of "Tonight's The Night" before he shelved it for two years, and ANY Neil & Crazy Horse live boots pre-1975 or any Neil & Crazy Horse outtakes from the 70s.
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I might have a duplicate of Young Man's Fancy.