Can the big guys rule the Web? Ask Ford or Dunkin Donuts
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Several high-profile cases illustrate the problems that large corporations are having with controlling information on the Internet. Ford Motor Co. has sued Web-site publisher Robert Lane, a big fan of Ford's Mustang car, for posting on his site internal secret documents that appear to provide details about Ford's product strategy. While Mr. Lane defends himself by saying the case is about his First Amendment rights, Ford counters that it is just trying to protect its property, including trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and internal documents. In another case, Dunkin Donuts Inc. decided to buy out a Web site that had posted a consumer's complaints against the company because the company did not provide skim milk for its coffee. Connecticut resident David Felton launched the site a few years ago. After Dunkin Donuts threatened to sue him for using words copyrighted by the company, and he did not give in, the company agreed to his offer to sell them the site.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1999
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Installation of a new leadership team gives Ford and edge over its competitors
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Ford Motor Co.'s new leadership team has given the auto maker an advantage over its competitors in an additional category. The category, management succession, will demonstrate Ford's ability to deal profitably with the next slowdown in the auto industry. The company will now be headed by nonexecutive chairman William Clay Ford Jr. and by president and CEO Jacques Nasser. Both men are replacing Alex Trotman as president, chairman and CEO.
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New leadership team gives auto maker an advantage over its competitors in management succession category
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1998
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