Help! Copyright Infringement?

Question

I got this posted in the comments section of one of my poems... do you think they're serious?

Greetings.

I represent the estate of the late Jim Morrison.

Our law offices have reviewed your poem, and it is our position that "Hello, excuse me, can you tell me your name?" is a copyright infringement to "Hello, I Love You" (won't you tell me your name?.) Our duty to the late author of these lyrics leaves us no choice but to provide notice to you of the following:

Enclosed please find a Summons and Complaint with a Statement of Damages for $100,000,000 (One Hundred Million Dollars). Please sign the Notice of Acknowledgement and Receipt of Summons and Complaint and return an original signed copy in the envelope provided. Should you refuse to accept service of process in this manner, the court may award us the costs of retaining a private process service to personally serve you with the enclosed documents.

We are willing to entertain a settlement offer within the reasonable boundaries of the amount alleged in the Complaint, but no less than $80,000,000 (Eighty Million Dollars).

Should you have any questions or desire further information, please do not hesitate to contact our offices.

With kind regards,

M. Tipton Thomas, III, Esq.
Dewey, Cheetham & Howe, LLC

Oh my gosh! I can't beleive I didn't see the name of the 'law firm'! And I just deleted that poem too!

Oh, that was so mean.

Why do people do things like this? Oh that was awful! I suspected it was a fake too, and I was going to wait until they responded to delete my poem! But I got scared... and deleted it anyway! Argh! I am SO reposting it!

Thanks for your responses, people!

Answer 1

have no fear. even if you happened to exactly duplicate the lines of someone else, it is NOT infringement if you came up with your poem on your own original thoughts. Only if they can prove that you intentionally and knowing took credit for another persons work whould there be any case. and there would not be a big award or fine, only a cease and desist order.

Answer 2

confident! All of those characters are copyrighted and trademarked and you will possibly choose to get a license from Disney to do this. Any trademarked character is against the regulation to repeat, freehand or in any different case, and sell. you do no longer very own the photos, for this reason you are able to no longer sell copies of them, besides the undeniable fact that they are made. it quite is completely high-quality to coach drawing by potential of doing this, yet you won't sell them. And have self assurance me, if Disney unearths out, you will get sued, and Craigslist may additionally block you from posting commercials, by fact Disney can come after them too. there is an previous asserting "do no longer Mess with the Mouse."

Answer 3

Time to break out your piggy bank. It is infringement on his lyrics if you had that poem published, in such a way to make a profit and or for someone else to make a profit from. But if your the average American don't worry you can't get blood from a stone! If it goes to court I'm sure the judge will through it out!

Answer 4

Nope, it is all B.S. A real attorney would first send you a cease and desist letter. If you failed to abide by it, then you'd be hauled into court. Whomever sent this violated the law by posing as an attorney. Don't sweat it, it's a hoax.

Answer 5

I think you'll figure it out if you read the name of the law firm that supposedly sent this letter to you:

Do We Cheat 'Em and How!

It's a fake! No worries!

Answer 6

No, not if this was posted in your comments section on your computer. Something like this would come in the mail. Sounds real though.

Answer 7

see www.chilingeffects.org for real info on how copyright violations are handled properly.