[ga] Re: Purdy: what is he really up to?

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Paul and all,

Paul Levy wrote:

> I am not so sure folks should be lionizing Purdy as Jeff Williams seems
> to do.
>
> Purdy is entitled to spread his message about abortion, and he is
> entitled to criticize powerful institutions that disagree with him about
> abortion (or that  fund family planning programs with which he
> disagrees, and I take it that this is his beef with some companies).
> And, given the developments in the domain name system, it seems clear to
> me that he is entitled to use those institutions names or trademarks as
> the domain names for web sites about those institutions.  But isn't it
> unfair for him to use their names simply to communicate messages about
> abortion, if the messages are not about the criticized institution?

  No if the shoe fits, ware it.  But is it wise to do so, also I would say
no.  Yet he has a right to express himself in this manner if he so chooses
in a free society.  Yet some would, as you are suggesting Paul, to
force or intimidate Bill via filing of law suits.  That hasn't been
successful
with Bill now has it?  So why try tat approach yet again?  Seems a bad
strategy.

>
>
> Purdy sent me word of this new UDRP complaint, and when I visited the
> sites to which the domain names led me, they were nothing about the Star
> Tribune and only about abortion.

  Yes.  So?

>
>
> We have prepared a brief which explains how what Purdy started doing
> with the Washington Post, Coke, Pepsi and McDonald's was inexcusable but
> which contained, essentially, a road map showing Purdy how he could use
> these names legitmately if his purpose was to criticize the Post and
> Pepsi and so forth.

  Anyone of any organization in the public arena is open to criticism.
Some deserved in the minds of some folks and some not deserving
in the minds of some folks.

>  (that brief was rejected for technical reasons
> about timing, so Purdy is exposed to the Eighth Circuit with nothing but
> his own pro se brief and a brief by a local lawyer who means well;
> still, the analysis is out there and I have every reason to believe that
> he understands it and recognizes that he made mistakes in the web sites
> that he initially posted using those domain names).  And, we have been
> considering a brief about his contempt sanctions in the Post case.  And
> yet his initial move with the Star Tribune is no diffrerent from his
> initial materials for which he has been slammed in the Post case.
>
> So, I have to wonder if his real purpose is to criticize using
> trademarks legitimately or if his real purpose is to expand his
> martyrdom.

  Perhaps neither, or all.  Perhaps none.  Whatever his purpose
Paul, he should take a positions as he has within the law.  That it seems
to me he is doing and has done.  Therefore, unlike many other's under similar

situations, have bowed to pressure unjustifiably, unnecessarily, and
certainly unfairly.

  The UDRP is a sham...

>
>
> Paul Alan Levy
> Public Citizen Litigation Group
> 1600 - 20th Street, N.W.
> Washington, D.C. 20009
> (202) 588-1000
> http://www.citizen.org/litigation/litigation.html
>
> >>> Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com> 04/09/03 06:15AM >>>
> Declan, Bill and all
>
>   Thanks for this interesting information.
>
>   Indeed it seems that yet again ICANN behind the scenes has
> been playing it's usual games.  The UDRP, as many now know
> is a disaster.  Some of us know this early on.
>
>   Bill, sorry again that you are being so imposed upon unnecessarily.
> It's simply disgusting.  Keep after them Bill!  You won before,
> you'll win again.  When will ICANN ever learn!
>
> Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> > It's late and I just skimmed the filing, which I've placed here:
> > http://www.politechbot.com/docs/purdy.star.tribune.040903.doc
> >
> > But it looks like the Minneapolis Star Tribune is going after Bill
> through
> > the UDRP process for allegedly registering startribunes.com,
> > startribunesays.com, and startribuneknows.com. It's unclear to me
> why
> > these domains have been registered, who registered them, or what the
> link
> > is between the domains and the Star Tribune's stance on abortion, if
> it
> > even has one.
> >
> > Background on Bill's earlier travails:
> > http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=purdy
> >
> > -Declan
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 15:54:27 -0600
> > From: William S. Purdy <wpurdy@attbi.com>
> > To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
> > Cc: Paul Levy <PLEVY@citizen.org>
> > Subject: Fw: McClatchy Management Services, Inc. v. William S. Purdy
> Sr.,
> >      William Purdy and Mark Purdy II (a/k/a Please Don't Kill Your
> Baby )
> >
> > Dear Declan,
> >
> > Here we go again, only this time it's the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
> I
> > wonder if they are filing a complaint with ICAN against as you call
> him, The
> > Italian Domain Name BANDIT, as he has a bunch of Star Tribune names
> as well.
> > This ought to be interesting.
> >
> > Yours, Bill Purdy
> > -----------------------------------------
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Wessberg, Ann Dunn" <AWessberg@faegre.com>
> > To: <wpurdy@attbi.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 3:34 PM
> > Subject: FW: McClatchy Management Services, Inc. v. William S. Purdy
> Sr.,
> > William Purdy and Mark Purdy II (a/k/a Please Don't Kill Your Baby )
> >
> > >
> > > As my earlier transmission was evidently too large to be
> successfully
> > > delivered, please see the attached Domain Name Dispute Complaint,
> pages
> > > 1-26, a hard copy of which is also being filed today with the
> National
> > > Arbitration Forum.  Pages 26 to the end of the document will be
> separately
> > > transmitted.
> > >
> > >
> > >  <<Document10.doc>>
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