JRR Tolkien: Return Of The Domain Name

Malfourmed writes "Reuters reports that the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien won a cybersquatting case against Alberta Hot Rods, a Canadian-based operator which registered jrrtolkien.com and linked it to its commercial celebrity Web site. The group - which has already lost domain name cases brought by actors Pierce Brosnan and Pamela Anderson, and author Michael Crichton - was found to have no legitimate rights, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said in a ruling."

Comments

If you register a domain, you own it.

[Jackie_Chan_Fan]

No one should be allowed to take that away from you. If i registered michael_jackson_loves_kids.com Should michael jackson have the right to take that from you? is it any different than owning michael_jackson.com? Frankly, its free speech, and its first come first serve. No one has a right to own their own name as a web domain. Mainly because there are more than one michael jackson in this world so celebrities dont get the right over the average nobodies who have the same name. So really ANYONE should beable to register ANYONES name. First come first serve... If i register www.killyourself.com and you wanted it... TOO BAD. Same thing with michaeljackson.com or in this case... tolkien

WIPO Taxing Small Inventors

[Baldrson]

Since there is only one asset tax that is standard across OECD countries, one would hope that it wouldn't be a damaging tax -- however -- it turns out to be profoundly regressive tax targeting small inventors. This asset tax normally goes under the name of "international patent maintanence fees". If the WIPO and OECD wants to protect intellectual property, it might want to investigate why it is that the primary expenditures of countries are in the defense of asset concentrations that are mililtarily, forensically and morally untenable at the expense of the source of the industrial civilization founding their existence.

Of course, they want to do no such thing. What they want is to leach off existing technical development, outsource the jobs of the inventors so-displaced from their royalty streams and have the inventors die an altruistic death for the rest of the world in the nearest dumpster during winter having failed to pass muster of the local social welfare agency because they are white, male and heterosexual.