On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, William X. Walsh wrote:
> > don't know what your talking about. Image Online Design vs CORE is
> > irrelevant to the issue. This has nothing to do with trade marks. Wrong
> > law William ;-)
>
> BTW, Joe, without the trademark, its not property. It's nothing more
> than a string of characters. Strings you can't own.
Trademarks are one form of property - and a form of property which does
not apply in this case. Under the law the GOD databases provide our
domain owners with the ability to navigate the GOD namespace. The aspect
of property here is not associated with the name or string. That is
irrelevant to the issue of theif or crime. The only issue of importance
is that if the USG creates a dot.GOD without our permission it will by
default jeopardize and destabalise the dot.GOD namespace and that's
covered by property law. I understand it's the same concept as stealing:
feel free to read the law again (which see)
United States Code, Title 18 Part 1, Chapter 47 Sec. 1030 Fraud and
related activity in connection with computers (which see
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1030.html ).
and
CONSOLIDATED STATUTES OF CANADA, Criminal Code, PART IX OFFENCES AGAINST
RIGHTS OF PROPERTY, Offences Resembling Theft 342.1 (which see
http://canada.justice.gc.ca/cgi-bin/folioisa.dll/estats.nfo/query=*/doc/{t35776}? ).
Joe
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