Business vs. Business.Jake Winebaum may be a "falling idol," as a recent profile in Business 2.0 calls the eCompanies founder and Business.com chief executive. But Winebaum made it abundantly clear he didn't want to be portrayed that way. Before publishing the article about the former Disney executive and his various collapsing Internet ventures, Business 2.0 publisher Time Inc. got a letter from Winebaum's attorney, John J. Walsh. The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of lawyer challenged publication of the article because it's a "calculated campaign to injure To interfere with the legally protected interest of another or to inflict harm on someone, for which an action may be brought. To damage or impair. The term injure is comprehensive and can apply to an injury to a person or property. Cross-references Tort Law. a prime competitor, our client Business.com and its most visible executive, Jake Winebaum, in the guise of journalism," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a disclosure that followed the story. Walsh claimed that the article "is, in fact, a classic act of unfair competition and restraint of trade restraint of trade Preventing of free competition in business by some action or condition such as price-fixing or the creation of a monopoly. The U.S. has a long-standing policy of maintaining competition among business enterprises through antitrust laws, the best-known of deliberately or recklessly taken by a marketplace giant by means of defamation of a young, fast-growing competitor." Time Inc. editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstine Norman Pearlstine (born October 4 1942, in Philadelphia) is the former editor in chief of Time Inc. He served as editor in chief between January 1 1995,[1] and December 31, 2005. At the end of his tenure, he was responsible for the content of Time Inc. said in a statement that he didn't think Business 2.0 and Business.com were competitors because Business 2.0 is a magazine with a Web site and Business.com is a portal with little original editorial content. "Even if we were direct competitors, we would run this story, believing that it is free speech clearly protected by the First Amendment and by state and federal precedents," Pearlstine said. |
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