Internet retailer Amazon.com filed suit in Delaware to fend off a bid by a Greek couple to set up an allegedly copy-cat Web site called "Amazon.gr" to sell Greek books and music to U.S. customers. Amazon.com contends that CITI Services Inc. and its owners, Greg Lloyd Smith and Aikaterini Theochari, are selling books and music on their Greece-based site and shipping the merchandise to U.S. customers. "[J]ust because you have a Web site in America doesn't mean you own it around the world," Smith said.
August 31, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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Internet retailing giant Amazon.com filed suit in Delaware to fend off a bid by a Greek couple to set up an allegedly copy-cat World Wide Web site called “Amazon.gr” to sell Greek books and music to U.S. customers.
In a suit filed in federal court in Wilmington, Seattle-based Amazon.com contends that CITI Services Inc. and its owners, Greg Lloyd Smith and Aikaterini Theochari, are selling books and music on their Greece-based site and shipping the merchandise to customers in the U.S.
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