It's not difficult to come up with many reasons why "famous trademarks"
could become an onerous burden on individual DN owners because it
subjects them to increased liability, limits an individual's right to
use, otherwise generic, words, and is inconsistent with the fundamental
principles of trademark law when applied to the Internet.
Joop Teernstra wrote:
>
> At 08:26 PM 9/07/1999 -0700, d3nnis wrote:
>
> >>
> >> Rod and Joop -- do you feel we need an 'official' IDNO position on this
> >> subject?
> >>
>
> Hello Dennis,
>
> Most "not so famous" DN owners will feel that the Famous Marks have already
> enough in Law to defend their Marks against dilution and infringement.
> The definition of what a Famous Mark is, is by no means clear, but it seems
> to favour European and North American marks unduly.
>
> --Joop Teernstra LL.M.-- , bootstrap of
> the IDNO Association,
> the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
> http://www.idno.org
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