On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 04:04:17PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote:

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Parody and criticism are protected under trademark law(although those rights are being eroded quickly.)

No one has a sense of humor any more. A lot of folks have had <companyname>sucks.com taken away from them due to "trademark violations".

Among the many domains registered to "Bell Atlantic Trademark Services LLC": VERIZONSUCKS.COM VERIZONBLOWS.COM VERIZONBITES.COM VERIZONSHITS.COM VERIZONWIRELESSSUCKS.COM VERIZONWIRELESSBLOWS.COM VERIZONWIRELESSBITES.COM VERIZONWIRELESSBITES.NET VERIZON-TELEKOM.ORG etc etc etc... You could almost make a case that they're preventing people from making criticisms, but given Verizon's level of performance its entirely possible these are domains for a soon-to-be-launched new product line. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)