Hello, Re: NYTimes Saul Hansell articlle, and its reference to the Treaty of Versailles. Why IPR regarding domain names should be *forever*, unlimited? The situation at pharmaceutical industry is much more sane, when patents expire after 20 years or so. The Treaty of Versailles rule regarding aspirin and other medecine trade mark should apply today to absolutely every other mark - after 20 years or so, in line with patent protection, the trademark word shall became for everyone usage. I may understand that company name shall be protected as long as company is running, but not products, not words we use everyday. I think also that all IPR system related to films or music must be revisited - today the rights are practically unlimited in time, nobody ever seen anything going back to public commons after 70 or 95 years. The Internet is being used by labels to reinforce their positions. The label revenues are revenues of IP lawyers. "The Internet is for everyone", remember? "Don't screw up our Internet" (the message from children to Vint Cerf), remember? Elisabeth Porteneuve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <ocl@gih.com> To: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [At-Large] [GTLD-WG] IRT working group report
Thank you, Joly!
Hello from the floor here at RIBA. They've implemented a WIFI network, and I can receive questions/comments (if you have any) and relay them to the panel.
I'm sitting by John Levine (writer of "Internet for Dummies") & behind Konstantinos Komaitis (NCUC's representative here). I had breakfast with Dr. Komaitis & Richard Tindall (DemandMedia) earlier on, to look for satisfying solutions for everyone.
Kind regards,
O.
----- Original Message ----- From: "WWWhatsup" <joly@punkcast.com> To: "At-Large Worldwide" <at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:02 AM Subject: Re: [At-Large] [GTLD-WG] IRT working group report
At 05:06 AM 7/3/2009, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote:
I've registered for the London event to take place on 15th July ( http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-12jun09-en.htm ) and will essentially be defending this line: it is outside ICANN's mandate. Anyone else planning to be in London?
Olivier
Good luck Olivier!
I note that remote participation is available via https://admin.na3.acrobat.com/_a819976787/outreach
Agenda: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/london-agenda-speakers-15jul09-en.p...
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The ALAC / NCUC
Joint Statement on the IRT Report
https://st.icann.org/gnso-liaison/index.cgi?joint_statement_on_the_irt_repor...
A bit of reaction from the NYC session:
NY Times articles: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/the-best-internet-addresses-will-co...
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/brokering-peace-between-brand-owner...
A long think piece from Rebecca Mckinnon supporting NCUC positions http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/07/icann-and-free-speech.h...
An essay, quoted in the above, that suggests the Global Protected Marks List involves prior restraint of free speech http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090621_mahmoud_ahmadinejad_globally_protecte...
and finally, ISOC's own Public Interest Registry's comments http://www.circleid.com/posts/comments_on_icanns_irt_final_report/
I quote from the latter:
We believe the Final Report puts too much emphasis on obliging registries to enforce trademark rights, in place of requiring ICANN to devote more resources to enforcing its contracts with registrars. We also believe that ICANN already has the legal tools to deal with the admittedly rare instances where a registry is in business to profit from trademark infringement. Adding a new legal process and giving rights to outsiders who are not parties to the ICANN-registry agreements is likely to increase litigation and its expense for all concerned. It is not likely to deal effectively with the real problems of cybersquatting.
Joly MacFie 212 608 1334 http://wwwhatsup.com http://punkcast.com http://pinstand.com
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