On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, at 12:56 [=GMT-0500], Swerve wrote: > "Visa" Torn From Dictionary by Credit Card Company > > <http://www.eff.org/Cases/Visa_v_JSL/20021121_eff_pr.html>
Lucky guy that EFF will pay for the court case. Many others suffer the same fate, thanks to the United Nations's WIPO and and the US Government's ICANN teaming up to give us the obligatory 'arbitration' under the UDRP. The revision of the UDRP was due for end 2000. So far nothing happened. Of course not, it serves big companies well. If you don't have a trademark someone else who does, can simply steal your domain, even if you have been using it for 5 years, and are not infringing on the trademark at all. They prove 'bad faith' by saying: You knew (or could or should have known), that someone else had a trademark. And lack of legitimate interest by saying: You have no trademark. So all they have to prove now, seems to be: I have a trademark, you don't. Look at the camper.us case, for another prime example of corporate theft, endorsed by us all, since we make people abide by this 'arbitration'. Read the stuff Tucows make you put up on your website, policies and the like. camper.us: http://www.arbforum.com/domains/decisions/118188.htm (I know .US does not have the UDRP (which is for gTLDs, but the US DRP, but it works exactly the same. WIPO convinces more and more ccTLDs to adopt the same rules, and accept the same biased set of trademark-minded so-called judges to 'arbitrate.) -- [02] I will be happy to answer any questions. http://logoff.org/
