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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:49
Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Tue, 02 Mar 1999 18:49:24 +0000
bram wrote:
> I agree with the person who made comments about .to that there's no
> particular reason why trademark law should apply to domain names - there's
> no particular expectation on the part of the general public that foo.com
> will correspond to the company foo, and putting up a web site at foo.com
> which claims to be from company foo is no different from impersonating foo
> from another domain name. (whitehouse.com seems relevant here)
Over here in the UK, Nominet+some law firm wasted a good deal of time
(in "study groups") and paper (with a considerable thud factor) stating
the bleedin' obvious about trademarks, namely:
a) the same trademark can coexist in up to around 150 different areas
without any hint of infringement,
b) even in the same area, the situation is far from clear cut (i.e. it
has to be capable of fooling someone into thinking they are dealing with
X when in fact they are dealing with Y before there is infringement),
c) trademarks aren't necessarily renderable in ASCII,
d) therefore a .tm (.uk in this case) TLD was a less than brilliant
idea.
And we pay for this stuff?
Cheers,
Ben.
-- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:49