Pledge “yellowikis”
"I will withdraw my advert in Yellow Pages and Yell.com unless Yell.com ceases its unfair and unfounded legal threat against the owners of "Yellowiki.com" but only if 10 other people will do the same."
— Richard Quick, http://www.richardquickdesign.com (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: 15th August 2006
15 people signed up (5 over target)
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Yell Limited have accused Yellowikis.com of "Passing Off"
The largest publisher of yellow pages directories in the world have written to Paul Youlten (co-founder of Yellowikis) saying they believe Yellowikis is "plainly purporting to be associated with (Yell)" and "this amounts to a misrepresentaion... which may result in third parties associating (Yellowikis) with our client (Yell)" ... "The continued presence in the market of your website will cause substantial damage to (Yell's) good will and reputation".
These are very serious accusations.
Yell's solicitors are demanding that:
- the Yellowikis site is shut down
- control and ownership of the domain name is passed to Yell
- compensation is paid to Yell for loss of profits
- Paul and Rosa agree never to set up another competitor to Yell
Paul Youlten and Rosa Blaus (co-founders of Yellowikis) have taken legal advice in London and believe that Yell's claims, while sincerely made, are without merit.
- raise £50 in 2 years so that LCA can contest one region in the European Elections
- hold a meeting to set up a Residents' Association and provide coffee and snacks
- give US$500 more to Chinese earthquake aid
- refuse to accept a national ID card
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Richard Quick, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Matthew Smith
- Riaz S. Mesbah
- Richard Harris, http://www.exclusive.ltd.uk
- Robert Hill
- James Coote
- Elijah Meeks
- Raymond Holm
- Jan Sjoholm
- William Tildesley
- Sir Arthur Grebe-Streebling
- stabani
- Claire McCann
- Stuart Morrison
- 2 people who did not want to give their names
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Jon
Dont give in to these bullies!
Your Work is excellent!
Man, I hate these corporate bullies...and what they're accusing you of is absurd.
Seriously, "yell" is a common word.
Its a joke right?