On 25 Aug 2001, at 12:10, Declan McCullagh wrote:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46313,00.html
Ethical Treatment of PETA Domain By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com) 2:00 a.m. Aug. 25, 2001 PDT
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court has ruled that a website titled "People Eating Tasty Animals" is not only a bad joke, but also an unlawful one.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals said this week that the peta.org domain name, registered in 1995 by a man who planned to parody the nonprofit group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, was an illegal trademark infringement.
Michael Doughney's peta.org parody site lampooned vegetarianism -- which the real PETA insists upon -- and applauded carnivorism, dubbing itself a tongue-in-cheek "resource for those who enjoy eating meat, wearing fur and leather, hunting and the fruits of scientific research." (PETA opposes medical research on animals even in cases where human lives could be saved.)
Did you actually look at the site in question before writing this article? http://mtd.com/tasty/ it is not a "parody site", the only part that is parody is the title. The resources, the advocacy of meat eating, hunting, animal use in reaearch, etc. are all genuine. George