Now you're just playing with words. Opposite, schmopposite. I am talking about
political constituencies, groupings of people with more or less uniform interests in
specific outcomes or policies. In that sense, a "free expression" constituency, in the
context of domain name trademark disputes, is an important and justifiable
counterbalance to a "trademark" constituency. When NSI decides that peta.org must be
suspended because it violates the trademark of PETA, it is deciding that PETA's
trademark rights are more important than peta.org's desire to satirize PETA. A truly
representative DNSO should represent both points of view.
--MM
Kent Crispin wrote:
> So what? That doesn't mean that a "free expression" constituency is
> in any meaningful sense an "opposite" to a TM constituency.
>
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