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This Means Warcraft!
Mark Rasch, 2006-04-03

A recent World of Warcraft case involved a WoW book by Brian Knopp that was being sold on eBay. It resulted in automated takedown notices by "lawyerbots" and shows how the legal process today can end up silencing legitimate uses of trademarks and copyrights.

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So what is the actual argument, here? 2006-04-06
Anonymous
It seems like the issue is laziness on the part of content providers who don't bother to review the situation, and copyright holders who apparently can't be arsed to review legal threats before sending them out. It seems to me that all we're doing here is establishing that lawyerbots are a bad idea...

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