Re: [atlarge-discuss] icannatlarge.com

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

James and all stakeholders or other interested parties and members,

  Jamie, you are exactly right here.  However regardless of how
we decide to collect funds for our effort, and what our new
DN will be or possibly remain, is in the TM world not all that
important given the history and current situation.  Sure ICANN
could sue or file a UDRP complaint if the string "ICANN"
remained in the new DN.  Would it stand up?  Not
a chance in hell.  Is it likely?  Nope.  So is it of any real
concern to us or should it be?  Not at this time, and likely
never.

James Love wrote:

> 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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