On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Swerve wrote:
> Excellent web page, Marc.!
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> > Marc Schneiders --- http://bodacious-tatas.org: no not what you think
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Thanks :-) Is it sarcastic enough?
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> Also,
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> 1.Life
> 2. Love
> 3. Freedom
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> +many others
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> are also trademarked as single words.
Yes, and the bodacious-tatas.com case sets precedence for the owner of
Love(tm) to have a domain Slove.com cancelled.
> Perhaps we'll see a day when WIPO trademark lawyers try to hijack domains
> that use those words as well.
>
> Language itself is being threatened by certain corporate interests. The
> phenomena is a Global one.
You are very right here, I'm afraid. It is not merely a matter of small
companies being ousted by big ones at a cheap rate though WIPO. It is also
about free speech. But who cares about that these days?
Well, I have collected a number of domains sufficient to protest all this
big-corporate and UN-aided theft, even if they steal a few from me. The
problem is: the press isn't even interested anymore in the victims of
UDRP. It has become common. And imagine what will happen after the new
gTLDs are introduced and the first five million names have been registered
in those... WIPO is going to be very busy. And we will all be bored by the
news on the 50,000th case and accept it like we accept parking tickets.
I hope my last remark will proove to be wrong, but I am cynical about it.
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