Typosquatting refers to registering domain names that are misspellings of popular websites in order to misdirect users or use the traffic for malicious purposes. Common tactics include using spelling errors, different top-level domains, or similarly phrased names. Victims can combat typosquatting by purchasing misspelled domains and redirecting them, issuing cease and desists, or pursuing legal action such as the UDRP or ACPA. Verizon Communications won a $31.15 million lawsuit against a registrar for cybersquatting on over 600 of its trademarked domains.
Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital LearningRenee Hobbs
Use these slides along with Renee Hobbs' new book, Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning (Corwin Press, 2010) to offer a professional development workshop for educators in your community.
Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital LearningRenee Hobbs
Use these slides along with Renee Hobbs' new book, Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning (Corwin Press, 2010) to offer a professional development workshop for educators in your community.
Intended for Educators and Students. Edited version of a presentation given at the NICE (Northern Illinois Computing Educators) Conference in February, 2009.
PPT on Trade mark act, 1999_(Rohan, Shweta, Soumya)RohanShah221
Trade Marks Act, 1999
-Introduction of TM
-History of TM
-Functions of TM
-Importance of TM
-Objective of TM
-Types of TM
-Procedure for Registering TM
-Advantages of Registering a TM
-Arrangement of Sections
-Rules of TM
-Trade Mark Infringement
-Trade Mark Remedies
-Penalties
-Conclusion
-References
Trademarks in Cyberspace: Domain name disputes, cybersquatting and internet i...garypierson
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Trademark infringement and passing off remediesSolubilis
Trademark Infringement and Passing off remedies is all we are going to see here. Keep your eye on this article to know the remedies for infringement and passing off.
Intended for Educators and Students. Edited version of a presentation given at the NICE (Northern Illinois Computing Educators) Conference in February, 2009.
PPT on Trade mark act, 1999_(Rohan, Shweta, Soumya)RohanShah221
Trade Marks Act, 1999
-Introduction of TM
-History of TM
-Functions of TM
-Importance of TM
-Objective of TM
-Types of TM
-Procedure for Registering TM
-Advantages of Registering a TM
-Arrangement of Sections
-Rules of TM
-Trade Mark Infringement
-Trade Mark Remedies
-Penalties
-Conclusion
-References
Trademarks in Cyberspace: Domain name disputes, cybersquatting and internet i...garypierson
This is a presentation recently presented to the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis regarding domain names and other trademark related internet topics. It covers the basic system for registering domain names, domain name dispute resolution and domain name portfolio management. It also touches on other current intellectual property topics such as keyword advertising, social media and the coming new top level domains.
Linking trademarks and character merchandisingkashishworld
'Trademark Merchandising' is more popularly known as 'Character Merchandising,' which is the second adaptation of fictional or non-fictional characters by using them concerning goods and services to gain prospective customers due to such close affinity. Go through the blog to know more about trademarks and character merchandising.
Trademark infringement and passing off remediesSolubilis
Trademark Infringement and Passing off remedies is all we are going to see here. Keep your eye on this article to know the remedies for infringement and passing off.
Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting), according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price.
The term is derived from "squatting", which is the act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building that the squatter does not own, rent, or otherwise have permission to use.
The basis of business on the internet is your domain name. Buying, selling, defending, procuring and maximizing domain names is key aspect of any affiliate marketer.
Experience level: Intermediate
Target audience: Affiliates/Publishers
Niche/vertical: Domains
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Cybersquatting in India - Genesis & Legal ScenarioNishi Shabana
A domain name is a unique name that identifies a website. Squatting is the act of registering a popular Internet address--usually a company name--with the intent of selling it to its rightful owner at an inflated price or put the domain names up for auction.....
Domain Name Dispute is a well known Argument because there are a lot of companies/corporate that are having a Domain Name Dispute. I strongly believe that Cyberspace is not to much secure because any-buddy can buy any-name similar to a highly successful firm on cyberspace but it doesn't allow anyone to use others trademark and its a dispute for them not for any Ethical firm or corporate.
Hope i am able to share some knowledge. Regards AS
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The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
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In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
2. Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, is a form of cybersquatting which relies on mistakes such as typographical errors made by Internet users when inputting a website address into a web browser.Shoulda user accidentally enter an incorrect website address, they may be led to an alternative website owned by a cybersquatter.
3. Overview The typosquatter's URL will usually be one of four kinds, all similar to the victim site address: (In the following, the intended website is "example.com") A common misspelling, or foreign language spelling, of the intended site: exemple.com A misspelling based on typing errors: xample.com or examlpe.com A differently phrased domain name: examples.com A different top-level domain: example.org
4. Once in the typosquatter's site, the user may also be tricked into thinking that they are in fact in the real site; through the use of copied or similar logos, website layouts or content. Sometimes competitors of the victim site will do this. Alternatively, the user will be forwarded to a site of a completely different nature from what they intended. This tactic was infamously used by John Zuccarini, who redirected domains targeting children to pornographic websites. Sometimes, the typosquatters will use the false addresses to distribute viruses, adware, spyware or other malware.
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7. Combattingtyposquatting 1. A victim website should send a cease and desist letter to the offender at first, in an attempt to quell the activity. 2. Another option would be to try to purchase the website address from the typosquatter, which could have been the typosquatter's aim all along. Occasionally, lawsuits are taken against the offending site or individual.
8. Contd…. 3. A company may try to preempt typosquatting by obtaining a number of websites with common misspellings and redirect them to the main, correctly spelled website. For example www.gooogle.com, www.goolge.com, www.gogle.com, www.gewgle.com, and others, all redirect to www.google.com.
9. Contd… Microsoft has released new software to help combat this issue. The software is called "Strider Typo-Patrol". This is a tool that scans and shows third-party domains that are allegedly typo squatting. It also lets parents restrict access to typo-squatting domains that show sexually oriented ads on typos of children's web sites.Ithighlights mis-spelt sites that use cookies and employ HTTP re-directions. Both of these are commonly used mechanisms for providing Web Services and don't necessarily mean a site is hosted by a domain squatter.
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12. Typosquatting and the law In the US, 1999 Anti-Cybersquatting Protection Act (ACPA) contains a clause (Section 3(a), amending 15 USC 1117 to include sub-section (d)(2)(B)(ii)) aimed at combattingtyposquatting. USA: Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (“ACPA”) of 1999 allows trademark owners to obtain damages and injunctive relief in federal court when a third party with a “bad faith intent to profit . . registers or uses a domain name” that isidentical or confusingly similar to a mark
13. Contd.. No anti-cybersquatting laws in Europe India - TRIPS, Art. 16(2) and 16(3) Extends the protection to services, as well as to dissimilar goods and services
14. UDRP (Unified Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy) In 1998, WIPO established its First Internet Domain Name Process to develop recommendations for the international community concerning issues with Internet domain names, including domain name dispute resolution Adopted by ICANN in 1999 • A mandatory administrative dispute resolution procedure, which is uniform across all open general top-level domains • Highly time- and cost effective when compared to court litigation
15. Contd.. Disputes are decided by independent panelists • A complainant must demonstrate that the disputed domain is identical with or confusingly similar to its trademark, that the respondent does not have a right or legitimate interest in the domain name and that the respondent registered and used the domain name in bad faith. • The sole remedy is the transfer of the domain name • Decisions can be appealed to court
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19. Examples Wikipedia is a victim of typosquatting: en.wiipedia.org, en.wikpedia.org, www.eikipedia.org, www.wilipedia.org, en.wikipedi.org, en.wikipediia.org, www.wikipedi.com and www.wikipaedia.org as of 2007, are all websites which contain pop-up ads, spyware/adware downloads, and ad-generating search engines. Google's anti-typosquatting defense is incomplete; as of April 2006, "http://www.goggle.com" redirects to a rogue software vendor (particularly SpySheriff) rather than to Google. The site attempts to spam users with popups and also used to download Spysheriff without any further user action. The US White House site "whitehouse.gov" is parodied at whitehouse.org; whitehouse.com at one point was the site of a notorious pornographic magazine.
21. Verizon Communications15th Dec2008 Verizon Communications won a $31.15 million judgment against internet registrar OnlineNIC. Microsoft and Yahoo are also pursuing cases against the company.In Verizon's case, the company brought suit charging that OnlineNIC registered approximately 663 domain names either matching or similar to Verizon trademarks – including Verizon-cellular[dot]com and Buyverizon[dot]net.
22. In court papers, Verizon claimed that OnlineNIC registered more than 900,000 domain names that were close to some of the globe's largest companies, including Google, Adidas, MySpace, Wal-Mart and Yahoo. OnlineNIC used an automated process to enable cybersquatters to register the URLs using “numerous means to conceal its true identity,” Verizon's suit claimed.
23. According to the default judgment issued Dec. 19 by Judge Jeremy Fogel in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose, OnlineNIC must now pay Verizon $31.15 million. The company also was ordered to transfer the domain names under dispute to Verizon, and may no longer register domain names containing Verizon trademarks.
24. And, on Dec. 19, Yahoo filed a suit accusing OnlineNIC of cybersquatting and trademark infringement. The company accused OnlineNIC of registering more than 500 domain names that match or are similar to its brands, including Yahoozone[dot]com and Yahooyahooligan[dot]com.
25. Rediff.com India Ltd., which owns trademarks such as REDRIFFMAIL and REDRIFF etc, won the typo domain Rediffmai.com in a recent WIPO case.Rediff is not a dictionary word. The disputed domain was parked and had pay-per-click ads related to many of Rediff's services. Obviously, Rediff deserved to win this domain. The respondent has a history of registering other domains, based on the names of other well-known companies: Quote: These include <bznkofamerica.com>, <goofgle.com>, <google4.com>, <facewbook.com>, <craigslisst.org>, <freiendster.com>, <amnestyinternational.org>, <photobucket.org>, <lycos.org>, <lycosasia.com>, <moorgate.com>, and <cottonell.com>.
26. .COM, .NET and .ORG Domain Names Terms .COM - to be used for commercial and personal sites .NET - recommended for companies involved in Internet .ORG - recommended for not-for-profit organizations
27. Domain Registration Policy • OPEN REGISTRY • Registration based on “first-come first-served” principle • it uses a robot for name registration to assure a non-discriminatory registration procedure
28. Restrictions • A domain name cannot be registered with the purpose to be resell it • Contact data provided should be complete • Domain names cannot contain obscene, pornographic, injurious, offending words (use a list of prohibited words) • Protect famous or very well known names
29. Domain name registration agreement The registration agreement contains: - a requirement that the domain name applicant provide accurate and reliable information and contact details consisting of: full name of the applicant; postal address; phone number; fax number; email address; primary and secondary nameservers (hostname, IP addresses); - where the registrant is an organization, an association or a corporation, the name of an authorized person for contact purposes must be supplied;
30. Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy • The Registry will take action when it is clear that a registrant is breaching the Registration Rules. • It may suspend delegation of an Internet Domain Name in certain circumstances: – the domain name is being used in a manner likely to cause confusion to Internet users; the use of the domain name is misleading other Internet users; – the whois contact data is inaccurate or false – Fraudulent payment.
31. • When a dispute arises between a domain name holder and a complainant, the .ro Registry will assist the two parties to arrive at a mutually acceptable resolution to the dispute by mediation. • When a mutual resolution is not successful, the complain is the subject of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy endorsed and approved by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). If the mediation is not successful, the complainant can submit the dispute either to WIPO (World Intelelctual Property), NAF (National Arbitration Forum) or to a court of Bucharest, Romania. • When a party is not pleased with the WIPO decission, he/she can submit the dispute to a court in Bucharest
32. Future developments • Provide online registration services to registrars using EPP • Allow Romanian characters to be used in domain names