All,
Just got these tonight:
Subject: Freedom?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 02:26:31 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Those who give up a little freedom for a little security
> will not have, nor do they deserve, either one"
> --Thomas Jefferson
I dont know you, and you dont know me,,,But Ford Motor Company is sueing
me,
for being the registrant of the domain name--justfords.com and
justfords.net
Seems to me the fact that I must leave my family and job in colorado,
and
drive to michigan, and stand in front of a judge in the district court
of
eastern michigan, in front of a group of Over Paid and Zealous lawyers,
in a
court that I belive is not the court of the WWW,,and will most likley be
found guilty, and will be orderd to pay the 200.000. that they
want,,,,is
Quite a loss of freedom. you dont need to reply to this,,,i just
thought
you mite like to know this. The Web is not a place to express your
freedoms,,,but to repress them, in fear of Reprisal. Tom Molinaro
lakewood
co.
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AND:
Subject: trademarks and disputes
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 01:42:07 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is what i just found on the web"Kerry and all,
Kerry Miller wrote:
> Roeland,
>
> > They make the suggestion, but if the trademark holder disagrees then
the
> > judge is back to the rather one-sided choice of enforcing TM law or
> > making
> > new law to cover the suggestion. Judges are NOT in the law making
> > business.
> > It would probably take an act of Congress.
>
> The tigher the *logical case ICANN can make, the less inclined a
> TM holder may be to press a case which would likely require some
> sort of substantial proof that pizza hut had in fact lost customers
> to pizahut, pizzzahut, pizzahouse, etc ad nauseam.
This indeed may occur at some point, but not likely in the immediate
future from where I am sitting at any rate. Also at any rate
this potential
My Name is Tom Molinaro, I live in lakewood colorado- i just read this
on the
web, and although you mite not remember writing this,,,,I and 71or so
others
are being sued in a Michigan District Court By Ford Motor Company for
Millions of Dollars, for nothing more then being the Registrant of a
domain
name, that contains the word FORD in it. My domain Name is "
justfords.com
I have no web site, I did however want to build a site for others like
me,
that own fords. So as you can see, the issue of trademark disputes is
real,
and is being taken to courts by lawyers who want to make a name for
themselfs. So Much for the Domain Nane Dispute Magistrate.
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And the TM abuse goes on....
Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!)
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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