Posted with permission. >Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Some insights on WIPO's idea of "Bad Faith" registrations ofDomain Names >Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:24:54 -0400 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 > >> From: "Francis Gurry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> if a consumer types the name of a mark >> or if a student types the name of a university, I think that they expect to >> end up at that mark or the university and not, for example, at a porn site. >> Nokiagirls.com appears on search reports from a search of "nokia" on search >> engines. > >First of all, Mr. Gurry, your own arbitrator, Geert Glas, noted in his opinion >that Nokiagirls was NOT a porn site. (see the quote yourself at >www.nokiagirls.com/glasquote.html ) > >Second of all, one of the OTHER things one gets from searching for "nokia" on a >search engine is the WIPO arbitration decision for nokiagirls.com , in which >your arbitrator has done the world a favor by (a) providing a picture of >precisely what had been there that Nokia found objectionable and (b) providing >the URL's of other sites which contain the rest of the pictures. > >I hardly see where you have room to complain about these effects of search >engine results, when WIPO is in the business of perpetuating the offense >complained of. > >Sincerely, > >John B. Berryhill, Ph.D. esq. >Dann, Dorfman, Herrell, & Skillman P.C. >1601 Market St. , Suite 720 >Philadelphia, PA 19103 >(215) 563-4100 voice >(215) 563-4044 fax > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ph-1.613.473.1719 These are the days in which even the mildly critical individual is likely to seem like a lion in contrast with the general mood... when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken as a sign of instability; and when... the bland lead the bland. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
