Re: [atlarge-discuss] Trademark debate

["Richard Henderson" <richardhenderson@ntlworld.com>]

The hijacking of our language by the Intellectual Property brigade,
supported and condoned by ICANN, is one or the great offences of this
"organisation" which purports to operate on behalf of the whole world.

Language belongs to the people, and the holding hostage of ordinary generic
words is disgraceful.

Let's be frank : ICANN is craven and serves corporate industry, and American
corporate industry in particular.

ICANN do what they do, because they have the power to do it, they have the
backing, they do not need to concern themselves with ordinary and unknown
people whose language they abduct and constrain.

As a novelist I regard this appalling and a kind of fascism.

Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: <eric@hi-tek.com>
To: <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 4:44 PM
Subject: [atlarge-discuss] Trademark debate


> Speaking theoretically only,
> Trademarks are an Intellectual property.  There is no Res.  It is an
> extension of, I think therefor i am, cogito ergo sum.  Are domain names
> a thing?  Do they actually exist?  Words and language are not owned.
> Can you copy write infringe on the Bible or the Koran or Buddha? I think
> not.
>
> If the great ICON of the great ICANN chooses to lay heavy legal hands
> upon us for associating with them, then what could the outcome possibly
> be?  Truth is a very interesting Intellectual Property.
>
> Wittgenstein would have loved the hornets nest stirred by the sophistry
> of Mr. Berryhill but it has absolutely no application in human and
> practical terms.  It was only legalistic theory and not a reasonable
> suggestion at all.
> I have heard from someone that knows him, as I do not, that it was an
> experiment.
>
> Take good heart in doing right as it will never jump up and bite you in
> the butt.
>
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