Sandy Sherger of Ararat, all I can say is if you bring over a quiz for me to do, I'll shout you to a Macca's special.
Good luck Sandy and great work!!
Here is her story:
February 02, 2007 12:00am
A PENSIONER running an online movie club as a hobby is the latest to be threatened with legal action by a US law firm.
Sandy Scherger, of Ararat, has been told her website, www.namethatmovie.net breaches intellectual property laws and must close.
This week she received a letter from a New York lawyer who claimed to be acting on behalf of the owner of US and Australia-registered trademarks Name That Tune and namethattune.com.
It stated the client had also registered Name That Video in the US.
"My client has developed a family of Name That . . . marks," the letter said. "Please take notice that your uses of the mark Name That Movie and the domain name . . . constitute infringements on my client's intellectual property rights."
The lawyer claimed Ms Scherger's use of the words Name That Movie would cause his client irreparable damage and demanded she stop using it immediately.
Ms Scherger, a pensioner and stay-at-home mum, said she got no money from her site, which she started eight years ago and ran as a hobby.
"I get nothing from it except the pleasure of running it," she said.
The 1500-1600 subscribers to Ms Scherger's website receive a free Name That Movie quiz twice a week. Correct answers earn them points rather than prizes.
Ms Scherger said she could not afford to change the domain name, which she'd owned since January 1999. "I didn't steal it from anybody."
This week the Herald Sun reported that Ian Macdonald, owner of a Rosebud restaurant called Macdonald's Gourmet Burgers, was being threatened with legal action by McDonald's.
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