Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Friday, May 13, 2005.

"Amazon gets pickier about its merchants," by Greg Wiles (Bloomberg News), 5/12/05 http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/4858266p-4459430c.html

"Dissident faction sues Disney over management changes," (AFP), eTaiwanNews.com, 5/11/05 http://www.etaiwannews.com/World/2005/05/11/1115776660.htm

"Verizon's E-mail Blockade Leads To Lawsuits: Verizon began blocking e-mails coming from IP addresses in Europe, Asia and elsewhere late last year because of increases in spam from those regions," by John Gartner, eeProductCenter.com, 5/11/05 http://www.eeproductcenter.com/analog/review/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163101298

"S.J. will have to share eBay convention crowds: AMUSEMENT PARK OUTING, BANQUET WILL BE IN SANTA CLARA," By Tracey Kaplan and Aaron C. Davis, Mercury News, 5/10/05 http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/11611087.htm

"eBay sued over Popemobile sale," Ananova.com http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1392494.html

"Going, going, gone, but now back in play," By John Ryan, Mercury News, 5/12/05 http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/11626877.htm

"New law exempts online auctioneers," Columbus Business First, 5/9/05 http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2005/05/09/daily3.html