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...this is a very different Tribe than the one that made opposing pitchers cry like little boys in 1995. Since then, GM John Hart has subtracted big bashers Albert Belle and Paul Sorrento...
...Hart began publishing his pieces electronically--strictly for pleasure, not profit. Indeed, he warned readers that if he caught anyone trying to poach his stuff, he would "hunt them down like the suture-headed mutants they are." Two years later, his site was drawing a couple thousand visitors a day. Until, that is, the evil lawyers interceded...
...August, Hart and his Internet service provider got a letter from an attorney for Spelling Entertainment Group advising them that Hart's summaries constituted "unauthorized derivative works of the property" and that unless he removed them from the Web by the end of the month--just before the sixth-season premiere!--Spelling would "take appropriate action." Hart called Greer Bosworth, the lawyer who had signed the letter, and asked, Why? What for? What's the problem? Bosworth said she thought the letter was pretty self-explanatory. It wasn't. There are dozens of Melrose Place-centric Websites out there, including...
Could it be that Hart's irreverent Web page was drawing traffic away from melroseplacetv.com the dull-as-Pravda official MP site? I tried to reach Bosworth for comment, but she wouldn't take my call. Bosworth referred me instead to a Spelling spokeswoman, who also couldn't say what, exactly, the problem was. ("I'm not a lawyer" was her line...
Meanwhile, Hart's Website provider has ordered him to take his stuff off the Web. Instead, Hart has moved it to its current site and vowed to stare down the Beverly Hills barristers and, if necessary, Spelling himself. Stay tuned--to Hart's Website, not Fox's soap...