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Re: [ICANN-EU] first penal court ruling
- To: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
- Subject: Re: [ICANN-EU] first penal court ruling
- From: Marc Schneiders <marc@venster.nl>
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:15:16 +0200 (MEST)
- cc: icann-europe@fitug.de
- Comment: This message comes from the icann-europe mailing list.
- In-Reply-To: <slrn8s4ap9.ntf.lutz@belenus.iks-jena.de>
- Sender: owner-icann-europe@fitug.de
On 15 Sep 2000, Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> * Andreas Fügner quote:
> > His defense was, that the companies did not have to buy from him. Instead
> > they could have registered different domains themselves. But the penal
> > court saw his actions as a clear breach of trademark law. Other civil
> > courts had come to similar conclusions earlier in Munich.
>
> 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.
>
> Hope to explain the problem to judges of the upper courts next week.
>
So, now you show it clearly: You are a friend of WIPO. You are supporting
censorship.
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Marc Schneiders (more in the headers)
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