--- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:29:07 -0500 From: "Paul Levy" <PLEVYat_private> To: <declanat_private> Subject: Football club fails to quash fan site I recently read a WIPO decision at the intersection of my passion for football and my professional interest in cyberlaw. According to the decision, a Turkish-American fan of Beziktas, one of the traditional top teams in Turkey, has since 1995 maintained an extensive fan site about his team, a real labor of love on which he claims to spend about $2000 per month. When the team finally decided that it wanted to set up a website, it demanded he give up his domain name and then filed a WIPO complaint in early 2003. Thankfully, the WIPO panelist recognized the right of a football fan to use his team's name for a site about the team, and refused to order transfer of the name http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2003/d2003-0035.html Paul Alan Levy Public Citizen Litigation Group 1600 - 20th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009 (202) 588-1000 http://www.citizen.org/litigation/litigation.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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