I thought you twoof s loved you some Ron Paul?
They're making money off his intellectual property without his express permission, which violates the property rights libertarians hold dear....
They also tried to extort an exorbitant amount of money out of Ron when he first asked them to stop, which if they were actual good supporters, they would have worked to find a solution that works for all parties involved...
Microsoft ended up compensating Mike Rowe for rights to his domain name.
if Paul wants these sites, looks like he's going to have to pay up, imo.
Last edited by Blake; 02-12-2013 at 12:29 PM.
what intellectual property did they use without Paul's permission?
Domain names belong to the person who was first to secure it. If anyone can about wanting a domain name w/o paying then Mark Cuban would be working at Walmart.
He will will just have to modify the name like MySA.com did.
His name, which he has a common law trademark on...
RP and his incompetent staff got punked by unregulated, libertarian free marketers.
ICANN will not allow domain squatting, hasn't for long time. eg, IBM doesn't have to use myIBM.com because somebody squatted IBM.com
Rand Paul’s Bin Laden Claim Is ‘Urban Myth’
Summary
In two recent statements, Sen. Rand Paul made the unsubstantiated claim that the U.S. government once “armed” and “funded” Osama bin Laden. The CIA and several of its top officials deny that the U.S. ever recruited, trained, armed or funded bin Laden during the Afghan war over Soviet occupation in the 1980s. Bin Laden himself has denied it.
Although the specter of a CIA-bin Laden link has been raised often since 9/11, no evidence has emerged to back it up. The CIA did covertly finance and arm Islamic fundamentalist Afghan factions in the fight against the Soviets, but the CIA has long maintained that it did not support the Arab fighters — including bin Laden — who came to Afghanistan to fight in solidarity with a Muslim country.
- The CIA official in charge of the U.S. covert operation in support of the Afghan fighters during the late 1980s told us Paul is perpetuating an “urban myth.”
- The CIA website states unequivocally “that the CIA never employed, paid, or maintained any relationship whatsoever with bin Laden.”
- In a 1993 interview, bin Laden himself said, “Personally neither I nor my brothers saw evidence of American help.”
Several independent journalists and authors who have extensively researched and written about the CIA’s involvement in the Afghanistan conflict with the Soviets in the 1980s support the CIA’s contention. For example, Peter Bergen, a national security analyst for CNN who interviewed bin Laden in 1997, told us, “There is no evidence that the CIA funded or armed bin Laden or even knew who he was until 1993.”
Paul, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a possible candidate for president in 2016, did not offer any evidence in his public comments that the CIA armed and funded bin Laden. We repeatedly reached out to his office seeking backup for his claims, but we did not hear back.
http://factcheck.org/2013/02/rand-pa...is-urban-myth/
common law trademarks are regulated by the states.
If he's really claiming common law tm, then he's going to the wrong place.
But I bet he's not. I bet you are trying to claim it for him in order to sound like you know what you are talking about.
Edit: wow, it looks like Paul really is claiming common law with the state of California?
To which they referred him to the international IPO organization?
doesn't really make much sense, imo, but if he doesn't care about his perception as a hypocrite, I guess it's worth a shot.
I can assure you MySA.com rather have SA.com.
sa.com is a dead page, a placeholder. looks like nobody is using for commercial/trademark purposes.
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