Sam Bayard, Assistant Director, Citizen Media Law Project

How Not to Write a Cease-and-Desist Letter

December 20, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Last weekend I came accross a recent case, In re Subpoena Issued Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to: 43SB.COM, LLC, 2007 WL 4335441 (D. Idaho Dec. 7, 2007). The decision came down earlier this month, but I hadn’t read anything about it until now, which is surpising because it is a veritable smörgåsbord of some of our favorite topics — anonymity, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and lawyers threatening to sue for copyright infringement of their cease-and-desist letters.

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