'Ol Carroll seeing red again

[FFCobra.com]

Originally Posted by computerworks

We certainly don't plan on that.

Let me post a statement that I have made on the other thread about this topic:

With respect to the ffcobra legal issue vs. this site, the situation is really quite different...and I will leave it at that.

We run an independent enthusiasts' site with no manufacturer's affiliation, with proper attribution of copyright and trademark across the board.

Thanks
ron
ClubCobra Moderator

I needed to clear something up on this public forum. Ron may not know the facts, so I want to be sure everyone knows the deal.

1.) FFCobra.com is an independent site with no affiliation to any manufacturer, including FFR. They did not start the site, I did. They have NO SAY over what gets said or done on my site.

FFR has been paying ClubCobra.com for ads much longer than they have paid me. They only started paying for an ad in 2005 and stopped in 2008.

2.) Ron says that ClubCobra.com uses "proper attribution of copyright and trademark across the board" but forgot to say that so does FFCobra.com. ClubCobra.com adopted my copyright and trademark notice at the bottom of every page. We use the same "notice".

If you use the Wayback web site you can see both sites in July 2002. My site has the same notice at the bottom of the page as I do today. Notice that ClubCobra.com did not not use this "notice" before FFCobra.com. Someone from ClubCobra.com copied my trademark notice at a later time.

http://web.archive.org Now go to July of 2002 and look at both sites.

http://web.archive.org/web/200207262...clubcobra.com/

http://web.archive.org/web/200207172...w.ffcobra.com/

Thank you,

- Bill