Bay watch: a gay auction site finds itself at odds with eBay. (On the Web).It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have the battle of the Bays: gay and lesbian auction site AlternaBay and Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the giant eBay (eBay, Inc., San Jose, CA, www.ebay.com) The major auction service on the Web. eBay popularized the concept of buying and selling online, and both individuals and commercial enterprises list items for sale. are gearing up for a copyright infringement Noun 1. copyright infringement - a violation of the rights secured by a copyright infringement of copyright plagiarisation, plagiarization, piracy, plagiarism - the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own fight. "No one can own the word bay," said AlternaBay founder Ronnie Rodriguez Rodriguez or Rodrigues (rōdrē`gəs), island (1996 est. pop. 34,883), 42 sq mi (109 sq km), in the Indian Ocean, c.350 mi (560 km) E of Mauritius, of which it is a dependency. . "I plan to fight for as long as it takes to prove that." AlternaBay is an auction site that caters to gays and lesbians, which creates an opportunity for people to shop or sell with others who share similar lifestyles, interests, and tastes, Rodriguez said. The bay in the name, he added, refers to his geographical community. But eBay sees the matter differently. "The word bay immediately conjures up an image of eBay," said eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove. The company eventually sent a cease-and-desist letter to Rodriguez in August, and Pursglove said if AlternaBay doesn't change its name, the company will litigate. Several other Web sites, including BidBay and film director Kevin Smith's Web site, which named an auction page e Jay after one of the writer-director's more popular characters, have lost similar copyright infringement battles with eBay. |
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