Standing up

Family, friends, followers and fellow crafters,
As many of you know I am a firm believer in standing up for my rights and the rights of others. For just over a month now I have been in somewhat of a battle with 2 companies that have no regard for crafters or the common people. These companies seem to only be interested in lining their own pockets at the expense of others, while some of us are just trying to make a few extra dollars to keep up with these hard economic times. In an ongoing effort to help myself and fellow crafters to be able to make some extra money without being bothered by corporate attorneys and their false claims of infringement as well as the venues that refuse to investigate, learn the law, or back their sellers, I will be filing a lawsuit seeking an injunction. Hopefully this injunction helps the many thousands of other crafters out there as well.
In order to file a lawsuit, it of course costs money, which I unfortunately do not have extra just sitting around as most people don't now days. So, I was thinking that so many people start their holiday shopping early, maybe they would like some of my handmade crafts for gifts and /or stocking stuffers, and at the same time help a good cause with their purchases. My online studio is located at http://www.hairtiesgalorenmore.artfire.com/ and can also be accessed directly from Facebook through my Artfire kiosk. Paypal is the payment method and is pretty much instant as well as secure.
Please feel free to forward this on to anyone you wish. I do NOT expect any one to buy or feel guilty for not buying, this is just a shot in the dark for me. You can't kill a crafter for trying! If it works, GREAT!! If it doesn't, then oh well we'll figure out plan B.
I have been told that I make some pretty mean and addictive Pecan turtles as well as some white chocolate macadamia nut turtles, both of which are only $10.00 a pound and would make a great gift (even for yourself)!
Thank you all for your support through all of this, it IS greatly appreciated!
If you are on Facebook, don't forget to fan me (hairtiesgalorenmore). You can also do it from over there >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I think?? LOL

Marvel

Well here we are almost a month later and I JUST finally (yesterday) got a response from one Gregory Pan at Marvel Entertainment. This was only after I sat for many hours emailing him non stop for hours on end.
First he tried the " Please have your attorney contact me and I will gladly speak to him or her." I then informed him that I am my attorney. Then sent another email as follows:
Mr. Pan,
"I am my attorney and if you are ready and willing to speak to an attorney then you should be ready and willing to speak to me. I want this resolved as soon as possible. I'm sure the courts are not going to like seeing how you shirk your responsibilities. You have received approximately 500 emails from me in less than a month, yet you do not respond until today when I keep sending non stop.
This needs resolved now. "
To which he responded with:
"Unless you follow the correct procedures to responding to Marvel's notice, Marvel has no obligations to respond.

Marvel reserves the right to take whatever remedies are available to it at law and in equity, and shall do whatever best protects its interests. Nothing in this letter shall be construed as a waiver or relinquishment of any rights or remedies available to Marvel. "
My response to that was:
"I followed the procedures set forth by esty in responding to Marvel's notice. I did what I was supposed to do, you however chose to ignore all of my correspondence until today with the excuse that "Marvel has no obligation to respond."
"Marvel reserves the right to take whatever remedies are available to it at law and in equity, and shall do whatever best protects its interests."
I would like to see said laws and equity. What interests exactly are you protecting? If you read any of my hundreds of emails, you would see that you have nothing to protect.
Next email from Mr. Pan simply says "please send me the counter-notice that you sent to etsy." So, I sent him the counter notice as well as the original email from etsy (my infringement notice).
I then hear nothing from him again until I send him an email asking if I should go forward with my lawsuit. Actually he wouldn't answer that one, so I sent another that said "I will take that as a yes, it is prepared and will be filed by this weekend."
To which he responded: "Marvel reaffirms our stance that our actions were within our rights and believes that your claims do not have any merit. You should proceed as you see fit."

How after over 500 emails does he think my claims have no merit? I sent him cases and judgements. Oh, that's right he probably ignored all of those emails as well. I'm sure the courts will love how he has (not) handled things on his end. Any moron can look up the same things that I sent him and see that they (Marvel)have no merit. I sure hope Disney has a much better attorney on their side...

Federal court here we come!!!