--- F R E N D Z of martian --- ----- Original Message ----- From: James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 9:28 PM Subject: <nettime> [Random-bits] Sexton, Berryhill et all on ICANN and trademarks > [orig to RANDOM-BITS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > > This is an online petition to ICANN regarding the issue of trademark's > and domain names. > > http://sunrise.open-rsc.org/ > > > In the sign-on letter to ICANN, be > > http://sunrise.open-rsc.org/see_it/ > > This is from the letter: > > MichaelKirkIsaPedophile.com is libelous, and has legal consequences > as a string of text. > > HaveSexWithMeForMoney.com is a criminal solicitation. > > TheHolocaustIsaJewishLie.com is likewise a criminal utterance, but > in Germany, not the U.S. > > MuhammadTheProphetAtePork.com is blasphemous and likely a capital > offense in several countries. > > Yet, despite these and other categories of legally significant > alphanumeric character sequences, some even criminal in nature, nobody > is proposing a prior restraint on them. > > Trademark infringement is only a subset of a much larger category > of legally-proscribable uses of alphanumeric characters. > > Why, among all forms of legally significant text strings, are > trademarks singled out for a heretofore unknown pre-emptive right? > Because ICANN, a technical body, has an "Intellectual Property > Constituency" with non-technical concerns. > > > ======================================================= > James Love, Director | http://www.cptech.org > Consumer Project on Technology | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > P.O. Box 19367 | voice: 1.202.387.8030 > Washington, DC 20036 | fax: 1.202.234.5176 > ======================================================= > _______________________________________________ > Random-bits mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/random-bits > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
