The IGP Blog reports that WIPO has entered the cybersquatting business, registering a domain name when there was a clear pre-existing trademark in the domain for another firm. Meanwhile the Canadian Chamber of Commerce's Canadian Intellectual Property Council is drawing the ire of McGill's Innovation Partnership. Last year, an international […]
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Canadian MPs Not Masters of their Domains
The Toronto Sun reports that two Canadian MPs – Conservative Keith Ashfield and Liberal Roger Cuzner – failed to re-register their domain names and now find them being used by domainers.
eMusic Loses Domain Name Claim For eMusic.ca
eMusic has lost a CIRA domain name dispute resolution case over emusic.ca. The domain was registered in 2001.
CIRA Announces New Board Members
CIRA has announced its newly elected board members. They include Lynne Mackan-Roy, Ross Rader, Tom Williams, Kerry Brown, and Barry Shell. Congratulations to all.
CIRA’s Backdoor Access in New WHOIS Policy
My weekly technology law column (Toronto Star version, Ottawa Citizen version, homepage version) revisits the disappointment with CIRA's implementation of its new whois policy. While dot-ca registrants across the country were being advised of the new policy last April, special interests representing law enforcement and trademark holders were quietly pressuring […]
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