Internet domain names, trademarks and free speech / Jacqueline Lipton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipton, Jacqueline.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Series:

Elgar intellectual property and global development.

Elgar intellectual property and global development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet domain names--Law and legislation.

Internet domain names.

Trademarks--Law and legislation.

Trademarks.

Freedom of speech.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As the first form of truly rivalrous digital property, Internet domain names raise many challenges for law and policy makers. Analyzing the ways in which past disputes have been decided by courts and arbitrators, Jacqueline Lipton offers a comprehensive, global examination of the legal, regulatory and policy issues that will shape the future of Internet domain name governance. 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 priv

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Overview of domain name regulation; 2. Competing trademark interests; 3. Domain names and free speech; 4. Personal names in the domain space; 5. Political, cultural and geographic identifiers in the domain space; 6. The boundaries of bad faith in the domain space; 7. Domain name theory; 8. Conclusions; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-88997-4

9786612889974

1-84980-698-5

OCLC:

688623507