Thursday April 07

Critical use of trademarks in domains is permissable

The US Court of Appeals today erred on the side of free speech in a case of domain name registration. It found that a domain with a brand name in it is permissable if it is used in a non-commercial way for criticism. So googlefucked.com etc etc is perfectly alright.

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func;=viewSubmission&sid;=716

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