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Ficker Loses Fight Against Web Site
posted by scubacuda on Monday March 01, @03:44AM
from the "in-the-spirit-of-healthy-democracy-of-this-country" dept.
Censorship Sun Herald: U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr. declined to shut down RobinFicker.com, a Web site devoted to unflattering accounts about the Republican congressional candidate from Montgomery County, claiming that that Ficker's claims of harm, and his assertion that he should enjoy first rights to the domain name, were outweighed by the possible infringement of First Amendment privileges of his critic, a paid consultant for Ficker's opponent.

(Two years ago Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Maryland's lieutenant governor, also had her name taken by a cybersquatter. The World Intellectual Property Organization's Arbitration and Mediation Center refused to transfer her the addresses, claiming that cybersquatter had the free-speech right to use Kennedy's name because she is a political figure.)

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    Election Sites (Score:1)
    by dtobias on Tuesday March 02, @05:26PM (#1494)
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    Campaign sites, as well as sites that criticize or parody them, really don't belong in .com domains anyway... being noncommercial in nature, they'd be better at home in .org or .info.

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