LEGAL NOTICE from Sales @ Filesonic (NEED HELP)

I AM FROM BANGLADESH. RECENTLY FILESONIC SEND ME THIS EMIAL... NOW WHAT I HAVE TO DO? GIVE THEM MY TWITTER USER NAME AND PASSWORD? OR IT'S JUST A FAKE EMAIL. IF I DO NOT GIVE THEM MY TWITTER ACCOUNT, THEY REALLY CAN TAKE ANY ACTION AGAINST ME?

(SOORY FOR MY BAD ENGLISH)

Dear Sir,



We are the owners and operators of FileSonic.com and all intellectual property rights vested therein including the tradename FileSonic. Over time, the popularity of our service has greatly increased our brand and recognition. As such, our site and brand has gained considerable value.



It has come to our attention that you have registered the account twitter.com/filesonic and used it for commercial purposes. This without our authorization and permission. This constitutes a breach of our intellectual property rights in which you may be liable for damages.



In good faith and without any waiver of our rights, we are willing to settle this matter amicably if you relinquish the twitter account for filesonic for which we are the true intellectual property owners. Failure to which we shall contact twitter to regain possession of the account and access the damange caused to our brand and institute legal proceedings against you personally without notice of delay. We shall also notify Twitter and your ISP in the process to bring them aware of the situation and ongoing infringement.



We trust that you will comply with the foregoing demands and email us at to relinquish the account and forwarded all log in's and passwords. However, please be advised that we are prepared to pursue any legal or equitable remedies it deems necessary to protect our rights and its reputation including against you personally in all jurisdictions.

Of course, nothing set forth herein shall be construed as a waiver or limitation of any of our client’s rights or remedies, all of which hereby are expressly reserved.

Sincerely,


FILESONIC.COM

 

not sure if the filesonic is officially a trademark.
but i was wondering why you choose filesonic as your twitter account unless you want to "con" people.

you must have some motives for using filesonic as your twitter account.

 

Looking at the cache, you were using listing their website on the account. They can certainly sue you even though you have deleted the content. I would turn over the account to them.

 

filesonic is a trademark, they own it. You didn't have permission to use their trademark.

Give them the twitter account. Yes, if you don't, they can take action against you.

 

Its probably a genuine one as this mail is a valid one.

Give that account back to filesonic itself & settle this matter quickly.

 

there are plenty of accounts like that in twitter like

http://twitter.com/Fileserve
http://twitter.com/Filefactory
http://twitter.com/rapidshare

etc

 

There is also a account on facebook

http://www.facebook.com/filesonic

 

You need to give up the account so as to avoid any future clash.

 

@xcollection - let them send a court date - then hand it over. - it's what i'd do anyway

 

Great! ( I mean, not for you) Great because I learned something new in my world

Just give away that account, don't wait until court date(if a court day is settled, then you have to pay the court and attorney's cost or any other charges)


~Mike

 

Yes, just give that account to filesonic & rest in peace. why steal someone's trademark & land into more troubles.

 

Give the account back to Filesonic.

 

Thank you for everyone's wise reasonable advice.

xcollection, our legal department had no choice but to take this measure against people who have hijacked our brand without our permission. Any company that owns a brand would have acted accordingly as well.

BTW, the same action is being taken against the user who hijacked our brand on facebook.

Thank you.

 

Hello FileSonic-IT

I know and understand all this legal issues. But now a question came to my mind looking at your reply.
"FileSonic" can not be used as a user account anywhere? Is there any other user here at DP using it? Because you have "-IT" at the end of your username.
Please, take me out of my doubt.


Thanks....
~Mike

 

Also please clarify this point bit further, if a user want to start a filesonic referral site or account on twitter, facebook etc for referring people to filesonic, what all kinds of account names are accepted without landing into troubles ?

 

It looks like he has never sent a tweet message

 

Guys, please relax. We're talking about two specific people who hijacked twitter.com/filesonic and facebook.com/filesonic. We just want our brand names on those two social networks back - that's it, that's all. I think that it's more than fair, as the owners of the brand, to claim possession of those two specific accounts.

 

i did not hijacked twitter account. I register it my self for log time ago. After a long time why you need this account? I do not want you give it to you. Is there any problem if i do not use this id to publish any filesonic related link?

 

it sucks when people use your name, but filesonic is not trademark, so technically people can use it. for example, dkp's blog is join-filesonic.blogspot.com. sending letter like the op posted there is against free will. if filesonic wants to make it trademark, register the name 'filesonic' in trademark office.

 

g36, refer to twitter and facebook's policies concerning brands (trademarked, or otherwise). Also, you should do a bit of research into registered/un-registered trademarking. As well as the Lanham Act. Interesting stuff.

xcollection: you must return the account, as FileSonic is our brand. We will take legal action if you do not comply.

Thanks