I've just gotten off the phone with eBay, concerning yet another takedown of my Mr. Kite poster. Despite providing documentation from the Intellectual Property Office of the UK, despite posting a video detailing how my poster is based on the original and not Peter Dean's, eBay's legal teams in the US and UK have apparently had several long and detailed discussions about this situation and decided "The posters bear a strong resemblance to one-another, so we're going to let Peter Dean pull his poster and they'll just need to work it out between themselves."
Yes, the posters bear a strong resemblance, they're both fucking copies of the same image!!
I don't know what kind of empty-headed morons they have in their legal department, but this is a clear-cut case of anti-competitive behavior. Any moron can see that.
Further, I don't know why eBay can't adhere to the typical counter-notification process in this case. They claim it's because Dean is in the UK, but Etsy had no issue with that. For those who don't know, here's how a counter-notification usually works:
- Your Item gets pulled for copyright violation.
- You submit a statement, under penalty of perjury, asserting that you have the right to sell that item and consent to due process by a court of law.
- Your legal statement of rights is forwarded to the copyright holder, who then has 10 business days to respond with documentation showing that they will be asserting their rights in court against you.
- If those court documents are not received by the sales platform (EG: eBay) in those 10 business days, their claim to have your listing pulled is considered to be baseless.
- You resist your item and go about your life, free of harassment from slimy cunts with loose morals.
I went through this process with Etsy, who essentially told me "Don't worry, that slimy cunt had his chance to prove his claim, but now we know that he's just a douchebag with loose morals and we'll ignore him in the future."
eBay, though? "Oh, he's in a different country so uh... you'll have to get his permission."
Fuck you, eBay. AND FUCK YOU, PETER DEAN.
You're a vile piece of rotting cock-flesh, clinging to the underbelly of a bloated and decaying whore-corpse. And a gutless, guileless coward to boot, without the common decency to have a conversation with someone you accuse of stealing from you.
TO EVERYONE WHO IS NOT PETER DEAN:
The most accurate Mr. Kite poster on Earth is still available on this very website: RIGHT HERE.
...And on Etsy: HERE.