Castle Rock shut me down

Just a quick note about selling Seinfeld tapes at places like eBay. I listed a tape for sale there that had an hour of Seinfeld bloopers and the Puerto Rican Day Parade episode on it. The auction was going on for a few days when I got an email from eBay telling me that Castle Rock had been in touch with them and asked them to cancel my auction, which naturally they did. The ironic part of the story is that I bought both the blooper tape and the Parade episode at eBay about three weeks ago...so Castle Rock must have just recently started clamping down.

[email] wrote: "Just a quick note about selling Seinfeld tapes at places like eBay. I listed a tape for sale there that had an hour of Seinfeld bloopers and the Puerto Rican Day Parade episode on it. The auction was going on for a few days when I got an email from eBay telling me that Castle Rock had been in touch with them and asked them to cancel my auction, which naturally they did......."

If they're not going to show or sell that episode, they sould allow true fans to distribute it themselves.

Irishman1959 wrote:

Unfortunately there is a glitch in law called "estopple" .  That means if Castle
Rock knows someone is infringing on their copyright and they do nothing about it
they can lose the right to sue someone else who infringes a copyright after that.
Hence they are out there protecting their copyright.  Obviously they are not afraid
of one fan selling a single copy of something but what if another company decided
to distribute our much-wished-for DVD of all the episodes etc.    Disney did a
similar thing   when they sued the Academy Awards show for using the Snow White
character in a dance scene without their permission; and the International Olympic
committee comes down on every little dry cleaner or snack bar that is called
"Olympic" when it gets close to Olympics time at the host venue.  (The Bastards!!!)
But they have to unless someone would please change the law.

Check out: http://www.legalhelp.org/afrmdef0.htm in that "estopple is a defense to a case against you."

In fact it was the Sumarians who first used this defense in a ... :-)