The World Intellectual Property Organization put out a release yesterday trumpeting an eight percent increase in domain name disputes handled by WIPO. In 2008 there were 2329 complaints filed with WIPO, the most ever. WIPO uses the increase to raise questions about the possible increase in the number of available […]
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Internet Governance
Canadian Presence Requirements vs. Canadian Content Requirements
During today's CRTC new media hearing, Chair Konrad von Finckenstein raised the prospect of identifying Canadian content by virtue of a dot-ca domain name. This possibility has been discussed several times during these hearings, with the Commission apparently hoping that dot-ca domain name registrations can serve as a proxy for […]
Do As We Say, Not As We Do
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 […]
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.
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