Wal-Mart Warns Over Black Friday Websites
It's become a holiday tradition! That's to say, early postings of "Day After Thanksgiving" sales (also known as Black Friday), particularly with regards to Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart has warned that posters had better "watch out." As opposed to Santa looking for bad behavior, Wal-Mart will be looking.
Wal-Mart's lawyers have an early holiday message for Web sites that post Black Friday ads ahead of their official release date: Don't do it.
Wal-Mart Stores said on Friday that its lawyers have sent
letters to the Web sites, saying publishing the ads before their
official November 19 release date violates Wal-Mart's copyrights and
other rights.
To police the web sites, Wal-Mart has outsourced the effort to China, where workers will be paid 10 cents per site they take down. No, not really, but it wouldn't surprise us.
