Re: [wg-c] trademark law & new gTLDs

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

Kevin Connolly wrote:

>The continued suggestion that domain names and trademarks are not related
>concepts is not likely to win acceptance outside of a small circle of
technocrats.
>A domain name is not the same as a trademark.  But a domain name has enough
>intellectual property content that domain name policy must be responsive
to the
>needs of the IP community.

I can agree with this, IF  the same logic also places the Domain Name owner
*within* that IP community and not outside it.  Then the TM owners can
start to create bridges, rather than digging deeper moats.
A DN is intellectual property with it's own characteristics, a tool for
Brand creation if there ever was one.
TM owners and their attorneys have to embrace the technology instead of
resisting it.
The problems that all IP owners face are not problems that disappear by
spending large amounts of $ on a lobbying effort. 
--Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  , bootstrap  of
the Cyberspace Association,
the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
http://www.idno.org