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A Good Day For Mormons

A Good Day For Mormons

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5524587

..  and regardless of your religious views, it’s a good ruling for domain registrants.  Taken to its illogical conclusion, anybody parodying anything or providing info could be taken to task under ACCPA. 

As a quick sidebar; I think the ACCPA is a dated law that doesn’t clearly allow for circumstances such as this and (in many circumstances) steamrolls registrant rights by instilling fear. The people writing this law did so during a period when the net (and domain space) was still evolving. There was no counter-balancing voice at the time to speak against over-reaching trademark holders interests. This particular law simply serves to drive many US centric entrepreneurs to start companies away from America.  THAT is ultimately bad for the US economy.  The world is changing and America’s economy needs domain name related laws that recognize registrants rights and help to foster entrepreneurialism; while still controlling wholesale trademark abuse (which is clearly unacceptable).

The keyword is balance.  Generic name-holders need laws that protect against Cyberbullying by over-reaching, covetous latecomers, just as much as TM holders need laws to protect against squatters..  Cyberbullying is a problem that is going to amplify by orders of magnitude as the Net continues to evolve and as latecomers finally come-around to realizing the opportunity that they missed.

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