At 04:37 PM 8/11/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> Willie Brown possibly has superior rights to williebrown.com,
>> williebrownjr.com and damayor.com vis a vis Andy Hasse because Mr. Hasse
>> appears to have obtained domain names likely to be associated with Willie
>> Brown, the mayor of San Francisco, possibly in a way calculated to harm
>> Mayor Brown (Mr Hasse's employment by Mayor Brown's rival is relevant to
>> this analysis). Possible theories include rights of publicity, common law
>> trademark, false advertising, interference with prospective advantage, and
>> unfair competition
>
>In other words, Mayor Brown has lots of rights under existing law to go
>after the other person. He needs no assistance from anything new in the
>domain name space, existing law provides more than adequate protection.
>
>So if Willy can demonstrate under existing laws that there is a violation
>to his right of publicity, common law trademark, that the other use is
>false advertising or interferes with a prospective advantage, or is unfair
>competion, then fine.
>
>It appears that we need not add any special new rules in the domain name
>arena to deal with this situation.
>
> --karl--
>
I'll go along with that, and then some.
Bill Lovell
