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I have added a {{NPOV-section}} to the External links section of this article, because all the links provided have a negative attitude towards cease and desist letters, or are resources for recipients of cease and desist letters. There are many cases in which cease and desist letters are valid and useful; I think there should be some links to websites explaining, for example, how to write a cease and desist letter, and under which circumstances they are appropriate to send. — Psychonaut 12:58, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
The problem is that adding the NPOV notice takes about as much effort as going out and correcting the NPOV by finding that link yourself and adding it. I'm not sure that there is a pro-C&D site; I think that the anti-C&D sites are not against the letters themselves, but against their abuse; and it is very hard to have a "pro-abuse of power" Web site on anything. See my point? I'm adding a link to "how to write a C&D letter" and removing NPOV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.129.167.114 ( talk • contribs)
I think it should be made clear where this legal term applies. From the links, it is clearly used in the US, but I have never come across it in the UK (where the closest, in England and Wales at least, would presumably be an injunction or court order?). I don't have sufficient expertise to add anything to the article itself, though - help appreciated? Peeper 22:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
As Peeper has suggested, geographical variances in how the idea of "cease and desist" is interpreted are important when trying to correctly explain the concept. In the most general terms, cease and desist is typically issued from a court, an officer of the court, or with judicial oversight. I would describe C&D as a universal legal concept, but with different methods to its invocation. With regard to the usage of "C&D letters", the United States has clearly made some exceptions to the idea that the process requires judicial oversight. The copyright lobby successfully petitioned the United States congress for more effective tools to stop infringement of their intellectual property, arguing that current laws were insufficient to respond to the instant nature of the internet. The resulting legislation is known as the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. As the DMCA is the boilerplate legal justification cited when a copyright holder is seeking a swift takedown of allegedly infringing internet activity, it is perhaps better to address the criticism and issues with DMCA abuse on its own article page, since it really is an exception to the standard cease and desist process where courts or law enforcement act as oversight in mediation between private parties or an individual. As such, I'm not sure DMCA specific links are the relevant citations for this article. I would hope to solicit other opinions on the subject before I make any edits to the article page. Sigterm 22:32, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Should we use the word "pleonasm" somewhere? i.e. "cease and desist" is an example of pleonasm, a rhetorical technique where the two parts of the phrase are synonymous and therefore redundant. Historians argue the source of this to be the assimilation of Anglo and Saxon cultures, where any hearer, no matter his origin, would be sure to have a cognate (and therefore be reasonably expected to understand) either the word "cease" or the word "desist," as all hearers came from countries with a form of cesare or a form of desistere. -- Mrcolj ( talk) 15:04, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible the original intent or understanding was that cease meant to stop now, and desist meant to refrain from doing it again? Cooker ( talk) 02:27, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Cease_and_desist —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nddaveman ( talk • contribs) 17:24, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
Cease and desist may be a redundancy or a tautology as they both mean stop. So why use the two words? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.3.64.20 ( talk • contribs)
Information that is not supported by any reference is useless, because not verifiable. The information can be removed and should only be restored with proper references. Verifiability is a core content policy. See WP:UNSOURCED. The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material. See also:
-- Edcolins ( talk) 21:09, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
A separate article for a list of famous cease and desist letters?
Wouldn't that be cool? -- Diblidabliduu ( talk) 11:22, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
I'm showing something this article lacked. On 2018, Nintendo sued Emuparadise, thus causing the site to remove all of its ROMs. -- LucianoTheWindowsFan ( talk) 16:50, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
The comprehensive description and summary samples in article Legal threat#Cease and desist is a lot better than what is in this article. This article seems to focus on the intellectual property aspect of C&D while excluding all the others. I'm not sure how one would go about copying from one Wikipedia article to another (while preserving edit history or not violating some internal copyright), but I wanted to express here that this article should be expanded beyond the intellectual property rights angle. Platonk ( talk) 18:54, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
Cease and desist letter for defamation of character 2601:188:8200:ACF0:4A:954F:F410:9F60 ( talk) 05:29, 12 November 2022 (UTC)