MANATT, PHELPS & PHILLIPS A PARTNERSHIP INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONS ATTORNEYS AT LAW MARK S. LEE 11355 WEST OLYMPIC BOULEVARD 1501 M STREET N.W., SUITE 700 DIRECT DIAL LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90064-1614 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-1702 (310)312-4128 TELEPHONE (310) 312-4000 TELEPHONE (202) 463-4300 FAX (310) 312-4224 FAX (202) 463-4394 33 MUSIC SQUARE WEST, SUITE 106-B File No. November 10, 1994 NASHVILLE, TENESSEE 37203-3226 10253-001 TELEPHONE (615) 259-1240 FAX (615) 259-1289 SENT BY AIRBORNE EXPRESS Re: Your Creation of Infringing "Cyber Graceland Tour" Dear Ms. Berman: This letter is sent to demand that you immediately withdraw the "Cyber Graceland Tour" presently featured on the "Elvis Home Page" you administer on the Internet. This office represents Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. ("EPE"). "EPE is the assignee of state and federal trademarks, service marks, copyrights, and indentification [publicity] rights of the estate of Elvis Presley..." Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. vs. Elvisly Yours, Inc., 936 F.2d 889, 892 (6th Cir. 1991). It has just come to EPE's attention that you administer an "Elvis Home Page" on the Internet at HTTP://sunsite.unc.edu/Elvis/elvishom.html, and that said home page includes what is advertised as a "Cyber Graceland Tour" consisting of sound clips of songs made famous by Elvis Presley and approximately 12 photographs of Graceland that were copied from postcards and/or brochures created and copyrighted by EPE. We also note that both the sound and graphics are of low quality. Your creation of the "Cyber Graceland Tour" with the above-described images and songs infringes EPE's rights in numerous ways, including but not limited to the following: (1) It infringed EPE's exclusive right to copy, distribute, and create derivatives of its copyrighted images of Graceland in violation of 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq.; (2) It infringes EPE's copyrights in the music used in the tour in violation of 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq; (3) It engages of unfair competition in violation of 15 U.S.C. Section 1125 and state law, in that, inter alia, it improperly infringes on EPE's proprietary rights to create a supposed "tour" of Graceland that will lessen the demand for an authorized electronic Graceland tour by either satisfying the demand of potential consumers for such a tour or alienating potential consumers by providing them with an inferior, low quality product. (4) It infringes EPE's publicity rights in the name, voice, and likeness of Elvis Presley under state law. We have noted the disclaimers in the Elvis Home Page, as well as your claim that you do not "intend" the Graceland Tour to infringe EPE's rights. Please be advised that said disclaimers do not excuse the above-described infringements of EPE's rights. On behalf of EPE we demand that you immediately withdraw the "Cyber Graceland Tour" from the Elvis Home Page on the Internet, and that you agree in writing: 1) that you will not in the future reproduce or make publicly available the Cyber Graceland Tour or any portion thereof by computer database or otherwise, and 2) that you will engage in no further actions that infringe EPE's rights. Please be advised that if the Cyber Graceland Tour is not removed from the Internet, and if we do not receive the above- described written confirmation, within 7 days of the date of this letter, EPE will have no choice but to exercise its rights under the law to their fullest extent. Very truly yours, Mark S. Lee MSL:vmt N:\INTERNET\BERMAN.119 11/10/94