Title: Internet domain names, trademarks, and free speech /
Authors: Lipton, Jacqueline D.
Publisher: Edward Elgar,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Internet domain names Law and legislation.; Trademarks Law and legislation; Freedom of speech
Abstract: This comprehensive examination of domain name disputes involving personal names and political and cultural issues sheds light on the need to balance trademark policy, free speech and other pressing interests such as privacy and personality rights. The author stresses that because domain names can only be registered to one person at a time, they create problems of scarcity not raised by other forms of digital assets. Also discussed are the kinds of conflicts over domain names that are not effectively addressed by existing regulations, as well as possible regulatory reforms.
Contents: Overview of domain name regulation -- Competing trademark interests -- Domain names and free speech -- Personal names in the domain space -- Political, cultural and geographic identifiers in the domain space -- The boundaries of bad faith in the domain space -- Domain name theory.