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NYT lawyers to indie dev: "you need to remove any reference to <em>The New York Times</em> from your website"

Cody Brown, developer of software that makes it easy to generate classy website news features in the style of The New York Times’ “Snow Fall”, made a mistake: he used photos from that legendary web layout in a youtube demo. The NYT sent a cease and desist letter, and he took it down. But then something strange happened: the NYT ordered him to remove all mention of the NYT from his own website.

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