(OT)
Not sure if all this intellectual property talk is directly opensrs related,
but it definitely affects us all. Imo, intellectual property issues are
quite complicated.
Personally, i make a distinction between unique words like "Microsoft",
"Open SRS", and words that already existed in our public domain lexicon,
like "yahoo" or "amazon". Their is also a legal distinction between
"famous" trademarks and just normal trademarks.
I will fight tooth and nail to prevent the subjugation of public domain
words into corporate properties that are the Exclusive domain of
corporations or individuals. (McDonalds (that crap burger chain) just
prevented a Swiss company from calling their health product/strategy,
McWellness.,. as if McDonalds has any moral right to prevent others from
using Mc in their concepts/art/businesses. imo, if a company or entity
wants exclusivity in the use of words, the least they can do is come up
with original words!.)
so, i say Yahoo! to the great Amazon River.
Swerve
> From: "Abhishek Rungta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Indus Net Technologies
> Reply-To: "Abhishek Rungta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 01:10:40 +0100
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Future problems for us !
>
> Hello All,
>
> I was just surfing by CNN.COM.
> found some interesting news and it is a warning for us.
> Giants like yahoo.com, att.com and microsoft.com are behaving as if some
> words cannot be used anywhere by anyone. I understand trademark/copyright
> infringement, but these does not seem to be the case. Today it is happening
> with them, tomorrow established corporates may start doing it with any of
> us. It must be voiced against.
>
> "The domain name campyahoo.com was ordered transferred to Yahoo!, which
> complained the name could be confused with its own trademarks. " - a
> statement from the news article.
>
> Now if someone uses campyahoo.com, why should it create problem to yahoo.
> This means no domain name can contain the word yahoo ?
> So tomorrow mail.com can start claiming that no domain name shall include
> the word "mail" !
>
> Another thought : Since it was yahoo ! , they prevented a name which has
> nothing to do with them (in fact), but when we complain about
> domaincollection about unfair practise to gather domain names (by mining the
> logs of whois requests), ICANN or domain dispute policy falls silent. This
> is not democracy at least.
> <oh yes. I did lodged a formal complaint against Domain Collection in Feb
> this year when I lost my domain name after few minutes checking in their
> system and the same thing was repeated exactly the next day>
>
> Another example :
> "U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T won its case against WorldclassMedia.com
> of Austria over the domain names attmexico.com and att-latinamerica.com "
>
> Again just the use of letters "att" creates problem ?
>
> "The domain names microsoftnetwork.com, hotmaill.com, homail.com,
> hotmai.com, otmail.com, hotmailcom.com, activexx.com and linksexchange.com.
> were ordered transferred to software maker Microsoft. " - another example
>
> This is too much. The guy who might have registered has not registered the
> word msn or hotmail in complete even. Cant we even buy the deformations of
> few names. I wonder how many names will it be possible to frame if we follow
> such strict trademark infringement and domain dispute law.
>
> Just a thought. I may be wrong. Would appriciate any comment. and I hope
> this post is valid to the group, since it must be concerning quite a few
> people in this biz.
>
> Complete article can be found at :
> http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/01/cybersquatting.ap/index.html
>
> What are the views of OpenSRS guys on this ? any comments ?
>
> Abhishek Rungta
> Indus Net Technologies
> Phone : 91-33-2201718 2210896
> http://www.talash.net
> ! Outsource your web development to us !
>
>
