This has been going on a while -- here's an article we ran on Wired News in Jan. 2001: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40939,00.html -Declan --- Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 20:03:29 -0400 Subject: Nissan URL dispute ncchelp.org From: "S. Ron Butler" <essronat_private> To: <declanat_private> Declan: I've never submitted, love your work. Have you seen this one?: http://www.ncchelp.org/The_Story/the_story.htm There is an update for April, and claims "This case has been denied national media coverage due to the automaker's huge advertising resources ($400,000,000 per year in the US only)". It amazes me they have the gall to bring a $10M suit against someone for registering their own name, which reminds me, I meant to copyright my DNA this week... ( http://www.dnacopyright.com/ ). It is difficult to see the logic in being subject to the DMCA, but not to have implicit right to our own DNA and nomenclature. Doubleplus ungood. Thanks for your diligent information, Ron _____________ S. Ron Butler http://essron.org/personal.html William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, 2003 University of Rochester ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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