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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DIGITALCUSTOM GROUP SUES FLORIDA COMPANY FOR INFRINGEMENT OF IMAGE-EDIT & ART WEB SITE
San Francisco, CA () -
DigitalCustom Group, Inc. announced a settlement
of its federal copyright and trademark action against Photo Renew, a Florida
based business. The action was filed in June in the San Francisco division
of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
DigitalCustom discovered
on June 24, 2001 that Photo Renew had copied the entire public portion
of DigitalCustom's customer consumer digital image editing Web site known
as Image-Edit & Art (www.image-edit.com).
The copying included the source code, text and graphics, creating an online
Web site that was virtually identical to Image-Edit & Art -- except
that the name Photo Renew had been substituted throughout the site. Under the settlement,
Photo Renew and its principals admitted the acts of infringement and agreed
to a permanent injunction and reimbursement of DigitalCustom's litigation
costs. Aaron Daru, DigitalCustom's
Vice President, Operations, said: "We reacted very swiftly to this
infringement and achieved a result that left the infringers worse off
for their ill-conceived strategy." # #
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DigitalCustom Group, Inc.
187 Pavilion Parkway, Suite 122
Newport KY 41071
Tel: +1 (513) 645-3030
Email: kgravelle@digitalcustom.com