Back in July, Angle's campaign sent Team Reid a cease-and-desist letter for reposting her old, pre-primary campaign website, in which she took much stronger right-wing positions such as phasing out Social Security, to compare it to her post-primary site. Despite a threat of a lawsuit, the Reid campaign only briefly took down the site, made some slight modifications (such as removing some sign-up fields) and put it right back up again.
Angle then continued to threaten legal action, but nothing came of it. "Well your website is like you, it's your intellectual property. So they can't use something that's yours, intellectual property, unless they pay you for it or get your permission," she said at the time. It was an interesting sight: A candidate for office was trying to suppress the reproduction of her own past campaign literature, claiming that an opponent cannot use it without her permission in order to criticize her.
Now Hasbro is telling Mrs Angle to cease-and-desist from copying their Monopoly board in her campaign. She's the latest of a number of Republican candidates- including Jim DeMint's failed California Mini-Me, Chuck DeVore, who pay scant notice to intellectual property law.
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