From: Net Enforcement To: "'steve@tatooine.com'" Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:20:46 -0800 Via email: steve@tatooine.com Via U.S. Certified Mail Re: Unauthorized Use of Trademarks and Copyrighted Property - www.tatooine.com Dear Sir: Lucasfilm Ltd. is the sole and exclusive owner of all rights in the major motion pictures Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. Those motion pictures and the names and the characters which appear therein are protected by the copyright and trademark laws of the United States and other nations. It has come to our attention that you have used and are using one or more of our trademarks from Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and/or Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as the domain name tatooine.com on the World Wide Web. Lucasfilm Ltd. did not authorize your use of these materials in this or any other manner. Please be advised that the unauthorized use and sale of our trademarked and copyrighted material creates a likelihood of confusion as to the source, affiliation, or sponsorship of your organization and products and constitutes actionable trademark and copyright infringement under both state and federal laws. Your use of Lucasfilm's famous trademarks also dilutes the distinctive quality of those marks. Finally, it is well established that only the owner of a trademark may use that mark as a domain name. Your use of this material by an unauthorized and unlicensed organization not only misappropriates a valuable asset of Lucasfilm, it threatens to cause us serious economic harm. We demand that you immediately cease and desist from any unauthorized use of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and/or Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace related materials and provide us written assurance that you will comply with this demand. Further, we demand that you immediately abandon use of the domain names listed above and transfer the domain names to Lucasfilm Ltd. The foregoing shall not be deemed a waiver of any claim at law or in equity which Lucasfilm Ltd. may have against you or any other party, each of which is expressly reserved. Failure to respond in writing to this letter within 10 days of its date may result in the initiation of legal proceedings without further notice to you. We look forward to your immediate response and cooperation. Sincerely, /s/ David J. Anderman David J. Anderman Associate Director of Business Affairs ----------------------------------------------- David J. Anderman Associate Director of Business Affairs Lucasfilm, Ltd. P.O. Box 2009 San Rafael, CA 94912 Phone: (415) 662-1800 Fax: (415) 662-2439 -----------------------------------------------