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Jerry Falwell Wins Dispute Over Fallwell.com

Posted by timothy on from the thus-saith-the-court dept.

setzman writes "According to this article from CNN, conservative minister Jerry Falwell has succeeded in shutting down a web site run by a gay activist on the domain fallwell.com. The judge said it was 'nearly identical' to the registered trademark 'Jerry Falwell' name and was likely to be confusing to Web surfers." (This was a Federal case, held in the 4th Circuit Court.)

6 of 538 comments (clear)

  1. Re:A good ruling by CountBrass · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Informative?!? INFORMATIVE!?! FFS I was being **FUNNY**.

    Hmm maybe the mod' accidentally selected the wrong category on the drop down. Ok I'll take whatever I can get.

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  2. I'm fairly sure by djeca · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    that when you troll, you're supposed to do it as AC.

    Or are you posting from a hacked account?

  3. Anti-Slashdot? by BananaJr6000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wouldn't that be SlashDoh?

    [groans]
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    1. Re:Anti-Slashdot? by mpost4 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      I would think Slashdash

      (ok I am a ham radio operator)

  4. Re:A good ruling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh yeah, I'd consider Nader worse than Falwell. Nader has actually made things worse than they would have been without him in some respects, at least in Falwell's case you know there was another nut job waiting in the wings to take his place.

    What the hell is with child saftey seats on airplanes? Is he smoking the sherm?

  5. Re:A good ruling by superyooser · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    As a Christian, I encourage other Christians out there to browse around the Skeptic's Annotated Bible. I bookmarked it about a year ago. Occasionally, I go through a section, pretending that the questioner is standing next to me, to see how fast I can give a succinct explanation. My median time is about ten seconds per question - basically, the time it takes to say it. Rarely do I have to look up something in any resources. Unfortunately, it's not a good test for the real world, because the issues it raises are so disingenious or absurdly obvious, I can't help but roll my eyes and moan. [Edit after previewing: On second thought, the fact that the issues it raises are disingenious or absurdly obvious does make it a good test for the real world.]

    The author's lack of Biblical knowledge would be amusing if he didn't take his work so seriously. It's a huge project and there's talk about putting it in book form. But it's fatuous. I would've thought it was a parody of an atheist site (as landoverbaptist.org is a fake church site) if it wasn't so thorough and well-planned and touted by non-Christians.

    This annotated Bible presents no challenge to Biblical inerrancy or Christian doctrine.