Visa vs. evisa.com In Vegas

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday November 23, 2002 @04:22AM from the registering-english-namespace dept.

wessman writes "In October 2002, Visa (the credit card company) convinced a Las Vegas federal court to prevent the small business JSL Corp. from using the term 'evisa' and the domain 'evisa.com' for its website offering travel, foreign language, and other multilingual applications and services. The court ruled that the website--run by Joe Orr from his apartment-- 'diluted' Visa's trademark, even though the site uses the word 'visa' in its ordinary dictionary definition, not in relation to credit card services. Now, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is helping JSL with an appeal. The EFF has a press release available."

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we could avoid this sort of thing.. by shaitand · 2002-11-23 05:52 · Score: 0, Flamebait

All we need to do is abolish corporations, if we get rid of this whole concept that these abstract entities exist and worst of all have rights then this sort of thing would go away. Down with corporate america and down with corporate world. And for those who say software coorps produce this or that, you should remember software corps don't make a single thing, they don't really exist so they can't do anything, people do these things, really honest to god human being who are being paid chump change to MAKE the things corporatation x would have you think was made by corporation x. No, it was made by sally j. Robert E. and Marry h. Not corporation x.