[free-sklyarov] My friend's WIPO fight

[Charles Eakins]

Well if afm stands for the name of his company, and it's not in the film
industry, then there's not much afma can do about it, because it would not
be confusing to the consumer.

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[mailto:free-sklyarov-admin at zork.net]On Behalf Of Seth David Schoen
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 7:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [free-sklyarov] My friend's WIPO fight


Tom writes:

> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:40:09PM -0400, mike wrote:
> > I friend of mine who registered afm.com for the legitimate purpose of
> > developing his own ecommerce business on the site is fighting a WIPO
> > action by afma.com, the american film marketing association.
>
> how many "American [something] Association" /are/ there?

There are hundreds of industry, scientific, and professional
associations that have "American" and "Association" in their names.

http://www.google.com/search?q=american+association

I can think of about 10 others outside of the copyright industries, but
there are hundreds.

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