XBIZ NEWS: XBIZ Served With Lawsuit From Rival AVN
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If Xbiz is worried about tarnishing reputation from this suit they wouldn't have brought this to the boards.?Clearly AVN is trying to tarnish XBIZ?s reputation to stem the tide of its diminishing marketshare,? XBIZ counsel said.Comment
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AVN have their heads up their asses if they think this is the way to gain webmaster support.
I'm unsubscribing from all their newsletters in protest and suggest everyone do the same.
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Anyone else get the email sent out by AVN after Sara left? It was juicy. I'd post it but deleted it a few days ago.Comment
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AVN would have a lot to prove to a jury to even get a little sympathy, and it'll be nothing compared to what they'd have to do in order to get the industries sympathy. The only thing I can imagine is that they are hoping for a settlement, and that it never even goes to trial.Comment
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Well I don't know what good a settlement will do them.
Considering a whole section of the industry will now refuse to ever do business with them again.
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Since 1997 I've had 2 hours of downtime.
Fast support, great techs, no hype, no gimmicks.
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Who told you that?
Cliff's Notes will suffice.Comment
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[QUOTE=baddog;15756177]Who told you that?
Which part? the right to work state or the trade secrets part?
I am pretty sure, unless you are an executive with the company, they can't prevent you from going to work for a competitor in California..although I could be wrong. Defining an "Executive" is another tricky situation...just cause your title has the word executive in it doesn't necessarily make you an exec under the letter of the law. Now, I'm not an attorney so my comments are just my own opinions but I really doubt AVN has any leg to stand on here. I have gone through similar circumstances with past employees and customer lists, and so-called "trade secrets" with a negative outcome for me as the company owner. What I've found over the years is that Judges tend to look at employees as the "little" guy almost without exception which generally leads to them finding in favor of the employee.
Now if were talking about "trade secrets" I think in this industry they are few and far between. Besides, you and I have been in this biz long enough to see that most of the industry was built on copying each others ideas in some form or another. But specifically to the Ad and online publishing arena I have a very hard time believing that AVN has a lock on any trade secrets that anyone with half a brain and the will to search Google can't uncover on their own. Again this is just my own opinion.Last edited by Just Mike; 04-17-2009, 01:47 PM.Comment
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ahhh yes you are probably right about that...although some of the google sites say cali is a right to work state...so not sure anymore.
but that aside...my opinions on the other items still stand...I think it's an uphill battleLast edited by Just Mike; 04-17-2009, 02:04 PM.Comment
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AVN better be able to prove it protected and treated the information as a trade secret prior to this incident.XBIZ NEWS: XBIZ Served With Lawsuit From Rival AVN
Adult Video News has filed suit against XBIZ, claiming it misappropriated trade secrets when it hired a former AVN sales executive.
http://www.xbiz.com/news/107165Comment





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