Trademarks, Free Speech, and ChillingEffects.org

Wendy Seltzer, wendy@seltzer.com

INTA Trademarks in Cyberspace
Brussels, Belgium, September 19, and New York, NY, September 25, 2002

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• Trademarks, Free Speech, and ChillingEffects.org
  • Wendy Seltzer
• Godzilla v. Davezilla: A misfired cease-and-desist?
  • Davezilla.com screenshot
  • Toho's Cease-and-Desist
  • Davezilla.com cartoon
  • Is it Godzilla?
  • Zilla is winning
  
  
• Trademark and Free Expression
• Balancing speech and commerce
  • Respecting Internet users’ free speech rights is good business and good law
• Legal limits to trademark enforcement
  • The limits of trademark
  • Commercial and non-commercial fair uses
  • The value of a healthy public space online
  • Variety of Internet uses
  • Cases for Non-Infringement
  • Cases for Non-Dilution
  • Rights or legitimate interests under UDRP
  • Screenshots:
    • EnronOwnsTheGOP
    • EnronOwnsTheGOP cease-and-desist
    • Jeb02.com
    • eGray
    • Distorted Barbie
    • Terri Welles
  • Legally problematic uses
  • Linking?
• Practical limits to trademark enforcement
  • Baseless threats can backfire
  • VerizonReallySucks.com
  • "The parties are advised to chill"
  
  
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
  • The shadow of the law
  • Screenshots:
    • About
    • Site overview
    • Entering a cease-and-desist
    • Cease-and-desist
    • Annotated cease-and-desist
    • Annotations
    • Database search
    • Search results
  • Goals of the Chilling Effects project
  • Press
  • ChillingEffects.org (link to site)

Wendy Seltzer
email: wendy@seltzer.com

Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Adjunct Professor, St. John’s University School of Law

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