Creepy Singing Dentist Will Sue You Over Negative Yelp Reviews

This is the Singing Dentist in New York, Dr. Stacy Makhnevich, who, as a condition of service, makes you sign a waiver, turning over copyright of any and all comments on Internet Review Sites to her and her office. And if you write a negative review, the office attempts to bill you 100 bucks per day until the negative comment is taken down.

From TechDirt here:

Our individual client, Robert Lee, had a bad experience, not with Makhnevich’s dental work, but with her billing and her failure to submit the documents he needed to get reimbursed by insurance. After his repeated efforts to get her office to do what they were supposed to do, he posted complaints on Yelp and on DoctorBase. Makhnevich threatened to sue him over the posts, and sent DMCA takedowns, but no doubt to her surprise, not only did the patient not remove his comments, but both Yelp and DoctorBase defied the threat of infringement liability, telling Makhnevich that they regarded her agreement with the patient as illegal. Undeterred, Makhnevich sent Lee invoices purporting to bill him $100 per day for the continued copyright infringement. Makhnevich also hired a lawyer who sent additional threats of litigation, but rather than continue to wait to be sued, Lee has now filed suit for a judgment declaring the agreement void, an injunction preventing Makhnevich from imposing the agreement on other patients, and a notice to all Makhnevich patients informing them that they are no longer restrained by the agreement.

And since this story broke, everyone has driven down Dr. Stacy’s Yelp ratings. In fact, most of the five star ratings she has ever received were from her own administrative staff, and many of those ratings have been deleted due to TOS violations.

I think she is a decent dentist, but she sings like an infected horse.