Conde Nast v. Estabrook [1]

In February 2010, Conde Nast Publications sent an email to freelance journalist and blogger Barry Estabrook asking him to remove articles posted on his blog, Politics of the Plate [2].  Estabrook originally wrote the articles in question for publication in Gourmet magazine, owned by Conde Nast and recently shut down for financial reasons. The articles addressed various topics relating to the interplay between food and politics.

The Conde Nast email indicated that Estabrook's posting of the articles violated its exclusive rights to publish them and requested that he take them down from the blog. As of the time of writing, Estabrook was linking to the articles on the Gourmet website [3], but not otherwise hosting them. The record is not entirely clear, but Estabrook may have originally posted pdf copies of the articles before receiving the email.