On 25 Aug 2001, at 12:10, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46313,00.html
>
> Ethical Treatment of PETA Domain
> By Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> 2:00 a.m. Aug. 25, 2001 PDT
>
> WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court has ruled that a website titled
> "People Eating Tasty Animals" is not only a bad joke, but also an
> unlawful one.
>
> The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals said this week that the peta.org
> domain name, registered in 1995 by a man who planned to parody the
> nonprofit group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, was an
> illegal trademark infringement.
>
> Michael Doughney's peta.org parody site lampooned vegetarianism --
> which the real PETA insists upon -- and applauded carnivorism, dubbing
> itself a tongue-in-cheek "resource for those who enjoy eating meat,
> wearing fur and leather, hunting and the fruits of scientific
> research." (PETA opposes medical research on animals even in cases
> where human lives could be saved.)
Did you actually look at the site in question before writing this
article?
http://mtd.com/tasty/
it is not a "parody site", the only part that is parody is the title.
The resources, the advocacy of meat eating, hunting, animal use
in reaearch, etc. are all genuine.
George
