Re: [atlarge-discuss] icannatlarge.com

[James Love <james.love@cptech.org>]

What exactly is the basis for this stated fear that people associated with 
icannatlarge.com, a group set up by ICANN, will lose assets because they 
ICANN name is used in the organization name?   There are a million 
organizations, projects, etc which seek to influence other organizations, 
and for that purpose, use the name.......    Not only icannwatch.org, but 
lots of similiar organizations.  And if there is a dispute over the 
trademark, it doesn't just drop from the sky full blown and expensive, it 
typically begins with a negotiation.  The area where you have some fiscal 
risk is if you are passing off on a brand, particularly in a commerical 
undertaking.  Moreover, the right to use the name of an organization to 
organize is something icannatlarge.com should fight to preserve.  This was 
an issue in the .union, .sucks, .humanrights, .discuss type TLD proposals. 
What will be important is how icannatlarge.com or whatever new name is 
choosen discribes itself on its own web page and fundraising literature.  It 
should not be decepitive or misleading regarding its relationship to 
ICANN.org.

  Jamie


Bruce Young wrote:
> Judith Oppenheimer wrote:
>
> |  All of this "take the risk, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it"
> |  bravado (or "let the cards fall where they may") comes at a significant
> |  *personal* legal and financial risk that is beyond the burden of what
> |  anyone assumed when they became a panelist.
>
> I agree.  Judith shouldn't be asked to risk her career and future, or
> faulted for being concerned over same.
>
> |  What Joanna, Walter and Bruce did was entirely appropriate, given the
> |  advice of private counsel and the extraordinary circumstances.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bruce Young
> Portland, Oregon USA
> bruce@barelyadequate.info
> http://www.barelyadequate.info
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