Re: [ICANN-EU] first penal court ruling

[lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)]

* Marc Schneiders wrote:
>On 15 Sep 2000, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
>> That reasoning is bad. Sending him to jail for grabbing is ok, but this
>> court also considered only the trademark laws. So this reasoning allows
>> grabbing naming domains in order to sell them to the person with this
>> name as long as it is not a registred trademark.
>
> So, now you show it clearly: You are a friend of WIPO. You are supporting
> censorship.

Why do you think so? Applying trademark laws to this case will come up with
a consistent but wrong public right for the future: You will ever lose
against a trade mark holder but never against a non trade mark holder. THis
implies, that trade mark owners have more rights than ordinary people.

I oppose that.