From kmwlaw@flash.net Mon Apr 16 17:56:36 2001 Return-Path: Received: from pimout3-int.prodigy.net (pimout3-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.102]) by mrvideo.vidiot.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA27341 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 17:56:34 -0500 Received: from x3757 (ppp-63-204-239-111.dialup.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.204.239.111]) by pimout3-int.prodigy.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f3GMuNH165074; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:56:23 -0400 Message-ID: <000701c0c6c8$756de8b0$0c00000a@kmwnt> From: "KMWLAW" To: Subject: UNAUTHORIZED USE OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION PROPERTIES Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 15:56:21 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Status: ROr Dennis L. Wilson Keats McFarland & Wilson LLP 9720 Wilshire Blvd., Penthouse Suite Beverly Hills, CA 90212 Tel: (310) 248-3830 Fax: (310) 860-0363 April 16, 2001 VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL Mr. Video Productions Michael Brown 6013 Mayhill Drive Madison, WI 53711-4123 brown@MRVIDEO.VIDIOT.COM Re: UNAUTHORIZED USE OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION PROPERTIES Dear Mr. Brown: This letter is being written to you on behalf of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (hereinafter referred to as "Client"). Our Client is the exclusive owner of all rights worldwide in and to the world famous "Ally McBeal," "Angel," "Buffy The Vampire Slayer," "Futurama," "Boston Public" and "The X-Files" television series and related promotional material. The most recent review of your web site located at "http://www.vidiot.com" shows that you are still providing for download unauthorized copies of our Client's Properties in the form of promotional video and audio clips, opening and closing credits, video clips from selected episodes, sequentially arranged framegrabs taken from the credits, music themes and spoilers. As you already know, your web site posts materials that are not authorized for distribution and our Client has legal obligations, including contractual guild relationships, which require its action to stop such unauthorized distribution. Therefore, we must again inform you that your distribution of our Client's Properties violates our Client's copyrights and trademark rights. We therefore request both that you cease such distribution and use of their Properties, and that you remove from your site or other sites operated by you all of the aforesaid Properties. As this is a matter of concern for our Client, we request a prompt response. This letter is not a complete statement of our Client's rights in connection with this matter, and nothing contained herein constitutes an express or implied waiver of any rights, remedies or defenses of our Client in connection with this matter, all of which are expressly reserved. Very truly yours, /s/ Dennis L. Wilson Keats McFarland & Wilson LLP DLW/atp cc: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation