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Cease and desist letters are sometimes used to intimidate recipients and can be "an effective tool used by corporations to chill the critical speech of gripe sites operators".[4] A company owning a trademark may send such letter to a gripe site operator alleging a trademark infringement, although the actual use of the trademark by the gripe site operator may fall under a fair use exception (in compliance with, in the U.S., the protection of free speech under the First Amendment).[4]

Copied from Cease and desist I would like to propose to add to this ending of the original article by giving an actual example of a cease and desist letter that has occurred in the past couple of years by Netflix, a very large company. This specific letter is an interesting one as it is not as threatening as the letters the original article speaks of, it is more lighthearted and shows cease and desist letters in a different light. I Think it is valuable to add an actual example of a letter to improved and EXPAND this article.

In September of 2017, Netflix sent an unconventional cease and desist letter to a Chicago area bar. The letter sent by Netflix's lawyers had instructed the bar to reach out and ask permission the next time they wanted to use a Netflix original series as the theme for their pop-up event. The cease and desist letter allowed the bar to finish their six week Stranger Things pop-up gimmick. The letter made a slight threat of litigation but by way of a lighthearted reference to the show's antagonist the Demogorgon.