Re: Re: [atlarge-discuss] icannatlarge.com

["Hari Gopal" <harivijapur@rediffmail.com>]

This entire Intelelctual Property infringement debate looks like a 
sure attempt to derail the AtLarge process. I smell a rat. If 
somebody thought of a probable infringement (which i doubt; refer 
Vivek Durai's post in this regard), it should have come out at the 
time such a choice was proposed on the icannatlarge.com site. Not 
now. Assuming in all fairness that it never occurred to anyone at 
that time, and that it is purely coincidental that such 
realization came only at a crucial time as the vote, the people 
concerned (the ones who fear prosecution, persecution, etc.) may 
kindly step down and aside, so the work of the organization goes 
on unhindered.

Hari Gopal.


On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 eric@www.hi-tek.com wrote :
> Sure sounds right to me.
> Was this an experiment of JBs' for a class project.
> A deliberate attempt to derail or what?
> e
>
> ---------- Original message ----------
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 06:24:25 -0400
> From: James Love <james.love@cptech.org>
> Reply-To: James Love <james.love@cptech.org>
> To: Bruce Young <bruce@barelyadequate.info>
> CC: atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de
> Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] icannatlarge.com
>
> 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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> > Support democratic control of the Internet!
> > Go to http://www.icannatlarge.com and Join ICANN At Large!
> >
> >
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