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RE: [ga] Stolen domains, transfers, WHOIS, audit trails, andsystemintegrity
- To: "Johnson, David" <DJohnson@Wilmer.com>
- Subject: RE: [ga] Stolen domains, transfers, WHOIS, audit trails, andsystemintegrity
- From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 21:12:42 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: "Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade@att.com>, Karl Auerbach <karl@CaveBear.com>, George Kirikos <gkirikos@yahoo.com>, ga@dnso.org
- In-Reply-To: <4D0BF71CD73BC24981E7EC7AD2B0BAD90F4F9B@DCEX62.wilmer.com>
- Sender: owner-ga-full@dnso.org
No, I'm afraid that what we have here is naive optimism.
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Johnson, David wrote:
> No one thinks we should give commercial interests (or governments)
"ownership" over all
> uses of a "short catchy" word or name.
Plenty of folks active in ICANN and WIPO advocate things that are
functionally equivalent to this. Since many of them are very smart, I
believe that this is in fact what they believe.
A few of them are honest enough to say so directly. Have a look at WIPO
expert and frequent committee member Fredrick Mostert's book on famous and
well-known marks -- keeping in mind just how big the category of
"well-known" marks is.
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