Doug Isenberg, Attorney & Founder of The GigaLaw Firm published an article today on Circle ID with regard to UDRP disputes at the WIPO. Doug noted,"WIPO statistics do not represent all of the complaints filed under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) (since there are four other service providers), but WIPO traditionally has been the most popular provider and, in any event, … [Read more...]
Google May Have To Pay European Publishers For Showing News Clips
The E.U. just wants to keep pushing Google's buttons Bloomberg is out this morning with a news item that the E.U. is drafting new copyright rules. Publishers would have the right to demand payment for their content being published on sites like Google News. Google shut its news portal in Spain in 2014 after copyright legislation allowed publishers charge for content used by other … [Read more...]
Can posting a link be a copyright violation ?
There was a very interesting article published by Maud Sacquet of Project Disco on how Europe is viewing links with relation to copyright law. That's right links, the driving force of the Internet, I don't think I have ever spoken with anyone that thinks they should have copyright protection. Europe’s highest court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), has made a ruling that … [Read more...]
No UDRP on This One, TM holder brings lawsuit instead
There was a post recently on Namepros that a member was not sure what to do about a demand for a domain name they owned. Some of the comments felt the person should keep the domain, and at the end of the day it's only a UDRP. I posted in the thread that the first rule of domaining is to not take legal advice from domain investors with no background in law. The other thing I mentioned was the … [Read more...]
Las Vegas NHL Owner playing a domain name game of misdirection
Las Vegas is getting an NHL (National Hockey League) team, the approval came a few months back but owner Bill Foley still can't come up with a name. Foley went to West Point and wanted to have something affiliated with Knights, the Army mascot is the Black Knights, it seems like lately Foley has resorted to playing games with potential domain investors who are trying to guess the team … [Read more...]
This Time Mark Monitor Has to Protect Their own Intellectual Property
Mark Monitor is usually out there to protect the intellectual interests of their clients. Recently they had to look out for their own ip assets and won a UDRP with regards to the name MarkMonitors.com. This was an obvious slam dunk as the respondent did not even respond. The panelist did make note that the respondent has made many registrations of "dubious legitimacy." Assisting the Panel in its … [Read more...]
Swedish Court Gives Pirate Bay domains back to the Government
So last week we wrote about another game of whack - a- mole pertaining to Sci-Hub and their jumping from one extension to another. I used The Pirate Bay as an example of this game. A reader accurately pointed out that the site was back on it's Swedish extension .SE. Well today a Stockholm court of appeals upheld a ruling from last year that will take the domain names ThePirateBay.se and … [Read more...]