An eBay VeRO Primer

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An eBay VeRO Primer

12-09-2008, 09:18 AM,

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An eBay VeRO Primer

Quote:How can VeRO be fixed? Mr. Pilutik has some suggestions"

"eBay similarly lacks any incentive to protect its sellers. As a result of its virtual monopoly on the online auction market, sellers have few alternatives to eBays sizeable market and are forced to sue the complaining rights holder if they wish to reinstate their listings. eBay punishes sellers who have had listings removed under the VeRO Program, and it has scant oversight in place to rectify wrongful listing removals at the hands of overzealous rights owners.

This inequity could be cured legally in one of two ways: eBay could modify its VeRO Program to account for the due process it owes its selling community, or Congress could enact a safe-harbor provision for online service providers under the Lanham Act similar to section 512 of the DMCA"...

full article: http://www.myblogutopia.com/2008/12/ebay...ke-me.html

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