{"id":4071,"date":"2009-09-03T07:41:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T13:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2012-05-19T10:14:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T15:14:48","slug":"mona-vie-dont-use-our-name-in-your-url-unless-youre-wikipedia-and-were-doing-the-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/mona-vie-dont-use-our-name-in-your-url-unless-youre-wikipedia-and-were-doing-the-editing\/","title":{"rendered":"Mona Vie: Don’t Use Our Name in Your URL, Unless You’re Wikipedia (and We’re Doing the Editing)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week I wrote about the MonaVie lawyers going after bloggers who do unflattering critiques of the company<\/a>. Their premise was silly: You can’t use our name in a URL. Here’s exactly what they said in their threatening letter to blogger “Lazy Man”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"No,<\/a>

No, this is not Mona Vie's site. No, MonaVie doesn't endorse or approve me writing about them. In fact, they'll probably get mad that I'm mentioning them. I don't like MonaVie.<\/p><\/div>\n

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As a network marketing company MonaVie does not permit its name to be used in any URL or email address and the company must take necessary action to protect its intellectual property. It is not permitted for a third party vendor to use the MonaVie trade name in any form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So no use of their name in a URL, and no user of their name in any form? Gotcha.<\/p>\n

Except it’s not so cut and dried. Lots of references to MonaVie in the titles of articles makes it so that their name is in the URL:<\/p>\n