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[Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon AT gmail.com>]

Exactly. Makes no sense.

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On Jul 11, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj AT gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm so confused by the domain-trademark problems.
>
> Why aren't domain names covered by standard trademark law like any
> other entity-formation?  we don't need ICANN rules to keep me from
> starting a Starbucks Inc cafepress store, or creating a "red cross"
> foundation that sells red crosses to raise money for pandas.   why is
> domain squatting treated so baroquely?
>
> S
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Rebecca
> MacKinnon<rebecca.mackinnon AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everybody.
> > As some of you know, next year ICANN plans to allow applications from
> > anybody who wants to run a new top-level domain (the part of the  
> > URL after
> > the dot), in any language. This has opened up a big argument over  
> > trademarks
> > among other things.
> >
> > A set of recommendations for how to handle trademark disputes has  
> > been
> > issued by an Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) from ICANN's
> > Intellectual Property Constituency. It has been up for download and  
> > public
> > comment here:
> > http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-29may09-en.htm
> >
> > One critique of the IRT report highlighting free speech concerns is  
> > here:
> > http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090621_mahmoud_ahmadinejad_globally_protected_marks_list_gpml/
> >
> > The Non-Commercial Users' Constituency within ICANN strongly  
> > objects to
> > these recommendations. In their formal comment paper objecting to the
> > subtance of the IRT report, they state:
> >
> > "the substantive IRT recommendations take ICANN far afield of its  
> > technical
> > scope and mission, create substantive new trademark rights (beyond  
> > existing
> > law), gut existing safeguards and fair procedures for domain name
> > registrants in the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (“UDRP”), and 
> >  create an
> > unbounded situation for abuse by trademark lawyers and those  
> > representing
> > trademark owners."
> >
> > The full objection paper is here:
> > http://icann-ncuc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/ncucs-substantive-comments-on
> >
> > Other public comments are here:
> > http://forum.icann.org/lists/irt-final-report/
> >
> > Public consultations will be held in New York and London next week,  
> > then in
> > Hong Kong the following week. The NCUC encourages people with  
> > concerns can
> > show up in person to voice them.
> >
> > THE DEADLINE TO REGISTER FOR THE NYC AND LONDON MEETINGS IS TODAY  
> > (Friday).
> > The deadline for Hong Kong is next week. For more information and  
> > to sign up
> > go here:
> > http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/consultation-outreach-en.htm
> >
> > Best,
> > Rebecca
> >
> >
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> > Rebecca MacKinnon
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> > Assistant Professor, Journalism & Media Studies Centre, University  
> > of Hong
> > Kong
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