Date:         Wed, 24 Feb 1999 19:25:10 -0500
Reply-To:     Richard Golen <rgolen@UMASSD.EDU>
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From:         Richard Golen <rgolen@UMASSD.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Register your VW (tm) domain name now!
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At 07:09 PM 2/24/99 -0500, Todd Hill wrote:
>Hello,
>
>All I can say is that if you have a business or are thinking about
>a business then register your name ASAP even if you don't have
>a webpage yet.  Check out:  www.volkswerks.com.  Nice page,
>huh?  Not mine!  Now, I can secure volkswerks.net or .org if I
>want to but most folks simply type the .com version.  I had an
>offer late last year by someone to set a page up for me but I
>turned it down as I was too busy doing gearboxes.  I'm left with
>either the mouthful- volkswerkstransaxles.com or the shorter
>.net/ .org versions.  Shoulda done this last year!  First come,
>first served!
>
>Never enough time to do it right the first time but plenty of time
>to do it over!


Sorry, but this isn't going to work, especially given the amount of
discussion on the VW lists about this, it would be easy for VW to show that
individuals had knowlege of VW's intent to enforce its copyrights. At this
point, without "knowlege"...ie using a VW trademark in one's domain name
prior to the letters going out or the discussion on the net about this
issue would make one an "innocent" infringer. An innocent infringer's only
duty to the owner of the copyright is to stop the infringement...

With knowlege of the infringement, one becomes an "intentional" infringer,
and can be held liable for $$$ damages as well as to stop the infringment.

I hate to say this...but I'm going to...I don't give advice on how to
rebuild transaxles...so stop giving legal advice.

Ric