Recently fans of Craigslist created a blog, Craigslist Blog. Instead of supporting the "unofficial" Craigstlist blog, Craigslist served a takedown notice to the official blog spot. In addition, Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster requested that the blog site stop using the domain, turn it over to Craigslist, and additionally stop posting excerpts from Craigslist.
While the unofficial blog will stop using excerpts from Craigslist, they will not take down the site and hand over the domain to Craigslist. Buckmaster was not pleased with this unofficial blog's response and sent a semi-threatening emailing, flexing some muscle by name dropping the law firm that represents not only Craigslist but Google. Craigslist has it's own official blog site (http://blog.craigslist.org/), which was only created a month ago.
"I think you have received bad legal counsel and that this is potentially a really bad PR move for (Craigslist),"said Tim White, a blogger on the official site. While this could be a bad move for Craigslist's hippie image, there are laws for a reason and this clearly is infringement.
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