The Wall Street Journal ran a column yesterday (if it wasn’t subscription only, you would be able to read it in seconds by clicking here but it is so you can’t), supporting the view that there really isn’t a field of cyberlaw.  The column quotes from a law review article entitled Against Cyberlaw: “The steam…

The FTC has warned operators of various major search engines that they have to make it clearer that companies have paid to be included in web search results.

Ben Edelman of the Berkman Center at Harvard has compiled another study on domain names, this one entitled “DNS as a Search Engine: A Quantitative Evaluation.”  As a matter of disclosure, I admit that I suggested this project to Ben and helped in its methodology.

The study is a first step at proving…

No comment on this copyright dispute.

Burt Alper is Strategy Director of Catchword, a San Francisco naming company.  I asked him what he thought of two recent naming stories, PWC Consulting’s change to MONDAY, and the British Post Office’s change from the Post Office to CONSIGNIA, and then back to the Post Office.  Here is his reply:

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Law.com article on how Google handles copyright complaints.

Registering a domain name merely to sell it held to be a violation of .biz’s charter resriction that the name be used for a bona fide commercial purpose, under the Restrictions Dispute Resolution Policy.  Same registrant took the .info version as well, and lost that under the UDRP in a consolidated decision.

A local realtor, er, real estate agent, brought this Trademark Trial and Appeal Board action against the National Association of Realtors to cancel its registration for REALTOR as generic.  NAR prevailed but the issue in chief wasn’t tried.  Plaintiff  argued that REALTOR was already a generic term when she had been a member of NAR up unitl 1996…