PETA gets control of parody peta.org domain, says appeals court

[georgemw at speakeasy.net]

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 at 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