[EL] Cybersquatting/Issa-Wertheimer

[Allison Hayward Gmail]

Similar arguments failed in a case described here.
<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54612.html> 

 

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Subject: [EL] Cybersquatting/Issa-Wertheimer

 


Cybersquatting vs. Political Opposition/Parody


I'm not sure if this is a question for Matt
<http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/elj.2008.0013?journalCode=elj>
Sanderson, Eugene Volokh <http://volokh.com/>  or Ben Sheffner
<http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com/> .

Check out what has got to be the funniest (and perhaps nastiest) parody site
for a congressional campaign that I've seen, www.janecorwin.org
<http://www.janecorwin.org/>  (e.g., "Together we can make delicious soup
from the bones of the poor. Sign up now to be served by Jane Corwin."). This
site appears to be more than just an attempt to grab traffic from voters
guessing at the name of Corwin's real site <http://janecorwin.com/> ; it
mimics the look and feel of that site and appears to me to be a political
critique of Corwin's policies.

So how do the rules on cybersquatting and copyright protection etc. interact
with the First Amendment in this context? Would there be a First Amendment
defense to a lawsuit brought by Corwin to move this to a differently-named
site (or to shut down the portions that appear to steal some of the Corwin
website's look and feel)?

Posted by Rick Hasen at 11:37 AM
<http://electionlawblog.org/archives/019475.html>  


Issa Gags Wertheimer


See here
<http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/160763-democrats-slam-issa
-for-rejecting-oversight-witness> .

Posted by Rick Hasen at 10:42 AM
<http://electionlawblog.org/archives/019474.html>  

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