Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Internet (2)
- User Generated Content (2)
- Web 2.0 (2)
- Anit-Cybersquatting Consurmer Protection Act (ACPA) (1)
- Blog (1)
-
- Clickfarming (1)
- Copyright (1)
- Creative Commons Licenses (1)
- Cybersquatting (1)
- Digital Natives (1)
- Domain Name (1)
- European Union Database Directive (1)
- Intellectual Property (1)
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) (1)
- Norms (1)
- Property (1)
- Regulation (1)
- Significant Words (1)
- Top Level Domain (gTLD) (1)
- Trademark (1)
- Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) (1)
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Intellectual Property Law
Bad Faith In Cyberspace: Grounding Domain Name Theory In Trademark, Property And Restitution, Jacqueline D. Lipton
Bad Faith In Cyberspace: Grounding Domain Name Theory In Trademark, Property And Restitution, Jacqueline D. Lipton
Articles
The year 2009 marks the tenth anniversary of domain name regulation under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) and the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). Adopted to combat cybersquatting, these rules left a confused picture of domain name theory in their wake. Early cybersquatters registered Internet domain names corresponding with others’ trademarks to sell them for a profit. However, this practice was quickly and easily contained. New practices arose in domain name markets, not initially contemplated by the drafters of the ACPA and the UDRP. One example is clickfarming – using domain names to generate revenues from click-on …
Wikipedia And The European Union Database Directive, Jacqueline D. Lipton
Wikipedia And The European Union Database Directive, Jacqueline D. Lipton
Articles
“Web 2.0" and "User Generated Content (UGC)" are the new buzzwords in cyberspace. In recent years, law and policy makers have struggled to keep pace with the needs of digital natives in terms of online content control in the new participatory web culture. Much of the discourse about intellectual property rights in this context revolves around copyright law: for example, who owns copyright in works generated by multiple people, and what happens when these joint authored works borrow from existing copyright works in terms of derivative works rights and the fair use defense. Many works compiled by groups are subject …
What Blogging Might Teach About Cybernorms, Jacqueline D. Lipton
What Blogging Might Teach About Cybernorms, Jacqueline D. Lipton
Articles
Since the dawn of the information age, scholars have debated the viability of regulating cyberspace. Early on, Professor Lawrence Lessig suggested that “code is law” online. Lessig and others also examined the respective regulatory functions of laws, code, market forces, and social norms. In recent years, with the rise of Web 2.0 interactive technologies, norms have taken center-stage as a regulatory modality online. The advantages of norms are that they can develop quickly by the communities that seek to enforce them, and they are not bound by geography. However, to date there has been scant literature dealing in any detail …