>Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:25:36 -0700 >To: Ellen Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Bill Lovell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Volkswagen continues to Bug VW.NET > >At 06:46 PM 8/15/99 -0800, you wrote: >>I hope one or more of the attorneys on this list files an amicus brief on >>behalf of Virtual Works. >> >>It's bad enough that trademark owners think they have priority rights to a >>domain name; now here is one who believes COM=NET and wants to collapse >>the gTLD namespace, content on site notwithstanding. > >You'll find no tears shed from here. I've got one little guy who puts on live >performances of the Rocky Horror Picture Show while also tweaking and >putting on line the pictures of the cast; we're well into our third year of battle >with a company in Northern lllinois that makes hardware and software for >converting video to digital form: we won at District Court on our Motion for >Summary Judgment but the Ninth Circuit just reversed and I've filed for >rehearing and suggested hearing en banc -- if any of that means anything >to anyone other than the lawyers on this list. The case is Interstellar >Starship Services v. Epix, Inc., which by now should be well known to >many both in and out of the legal field, his domain name is epix.com, >wherein "epix" is short for electronic pictures from way back (just as >email is short for electronic mail -- similar pronunciation), and I've had no >difficulty at all in fighting off the Good Samaritans that want to help out >the little guy here -- there haven't been any. The existing precedent of >this case is devastating to the internet individual: EPIX and epix.com >are now "the same mark." > >Bill Lovell >
