At 10:57 AM 7/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
>At 08:12 PM 7/12/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>At 05:01 PM 7/12/99 -0400, Martin B. Schwimmer wrote:
>
>No I didn't, ICANN's counsel wrote the long passage you quoted.
Martin:
Sorry if I misattributed; one cannot always tell!
As to the NSI argument, your comparis
At 08:12 PM 7/12/99 -0700, you wrote:
>At 05:01 PM 7/12/99 -0400, Martin B. Schwimmer wrote:
No I didn't, ICANN's counsel wrote the long passage you quoted.
>
[snip]
Bill Lovell:
>As to that, I was privileged to hear a description by an NSI attorney
>in the Lockheed Martin v. Network Solutions
At 05:01 PM 7/12/99 -0400, Martin B. Schwimmer wrote:
>Under current United States law, it is highly doubtful that collection by
>registrars of this factual information gives rise to any enforceable
>intellectual property rights. Under Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural
>Telephone Service Co., 499
Further to recent discussions on these lists regarding ownership of data
contained in the whois database of domain names, reprinted below is ICANN's
comments on this issue made in response to questions asked by Rep. Bliley
(R- VA), Chairman of the US House Commerce Committee. All of ICANN's
respo
