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For the time being, companies will suffer. Consider the plight of British media company Trinity Mirror, which publishes the Daily Mirror and other newspapers and owns the Internet service provider ic24.com. The IOC has sued in the U.S. for control over several site names Mirror New Media had registered, such...
But the IOC feels it has the standing to "recover" thousands of other Internet addresses, including 1,800 registered by non-U.S. residents. Some, like 2004olympics.com and olympic2000.org, might legitimately be confused with official Olympics sites. The organization, however, is casting its net widely, including such names as olympicairways.net...
The IOC insists it is only trying to protect the public. "We want to recover the URLs from people who have websites that claim an affiliation with us that does not exist," says IOC spokesman Franklin Servan-Schreiber. "Some are claiming to sell tickets they do not have, and others...
What WIPO and ICANN act against are bad faith, where domain names are bought simply to sell on to organisations which own a trademarked name. And in many of the Olympics-related cases, the company registering the Web address fully intended to use it for appropriate commercial purposes. "This is...
Usually the opening ceremony for the Olympics is a bit like Oscar night: You suffer though a lot of pretentious, self-indulgent schmaltz just so you can enjoy a couple of interesting moments that might be memorable and even historic. Like the Oscars, the ceremony can drag on and on...