• Ownership of "debian.community" domain

    From Laura Arjona Reina@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 7 17:00:01 2022
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    <span style="font-family:monospace"><span
    style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">------------------------------------------------------------------------
    </span><br>
    The Debian Project
                                  <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.debian.org/">https://www.debian.org/</a>
    <br>
    Ownership of "debian.community" domain
                     <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:press@debian.org">press@debian.org</a>
    <br>
    August 7th, 2022
                  <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.debian.org/News/2022/20220807">https://www.debian.org/News/2022/20220807</a>
    <br> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    <br>
    <br>
    The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), under its
    Uniform
    <br>
    Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP), decided that
    ownership of
    <br>
    the "debian.community" [1] domain should be transferred to the
    Debian
    <br>
    Project [2].
    <br>
    <br>
       1: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://debian.community">https://debian.community</a>
    <br>
       2:
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case=D2022-1524">https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case=D2022-1524</a>
    <br>
    <br>
    The appointed panel found that "the disputed domain name is
    identical to
    <br>
    a trademark in which the Complainant has rights."
    <br>
    <br>
    In its decision the panel noted: <br>
    <br>
    "[...] the disputed domain name is
    <br>
    identical to the DEBIAN mark, which carries a high risk of implied
    <br>
    affiliation with the Complainant. [...] Given that the Complainant
    <br>
    prominently describes Debian on its homepage as a 'community' and
    not
    <br>
    just an operating system, [the.community] suffix actually
    reinforces
    <br>
    that the disputed domain name will resolve to a site operated or
    <br>
    endorsed by [Debian]. The disputed domain name contains no
    critical or
    <br>
    other terms to dispel or qualify that false impression." <br>
    </span>
    <p><span style="font-family:monospace">The panel went on to observe:
    <br>
    </span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:monospace">"The evidence submitted by
    the Complainant shows that some posts present the <br>
    DEBIAN mark together with information about a notorious sex
    cult, notorious sex <br>
    offenders, and enslavement of women, and one post displays
    photographs of <br>
    physical branding allegedly on victims’ genital skin. The segues
    from <br>
    information about the Complainant to this type of information
    are contrived and <br>
    the scale of this information is not merely incidental on the
    website. In the <br>
    Panel’s view, these posts are deliberately intended to create a
    false <br>
    association between the DEBIAN trademark and offensive phenomena
    and thereby <br>
    tarnish the mark."<br>
    </span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:monospace"></span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:monospace">
    and further concluded that: <br>
    </span></p>
    <p><span style="font-family:monospace">"nothing in the Debian Social
    Contract or elsewhere indicates that the <br>
    Complainant has ever consented to the type of false associations
    with its mark <br>
    published by the respondent on its website. The Respondent
    points out that the <br>
    DEBIAN mark is registered only in respect of software. However,
    while the <br>
    relevant posts attack members of the Complainant who make
    available DEBIAN <br>
    software, rather than the software itself, these posts use the
    mark in <br>
    combination with the disputed domain name in a way that
    intentionally seeks to <br>
    create false associations with the mark itself. "<br>
    </span><span style="font-family:monospace"></span></p>
    <span style="font-family:monospace">Debian is committed to the
    proper use of its trademarks subject to its
    <br>
    trademark policy [3] and will continue to take enforcement action
    when
    <br>
    that policy is violated.<br>
    <br>
       3: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.debian.org/trademark">https://www.debian.org/trademark</a>
    <br>
    <br>
    The content of "debian.community" has now been replaced by a
    page [4]
    <br>
    explaining the situation and answering further questions.
    <br>
    <br>
       4: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.debian.org/legal/debian-community-site">https://www.debian.org/legal/debian-community-site</a>
    <br>
    <br>
    WIPO's full decision text is available online:
    <br>
    </span>
    <p><span style="font-family:monospace"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case_id=58273">https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case_id=58273</a> [5]
    <br>
    </span></p>
    <span style="font-family:monospace">   5:
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case_id=58273">https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/case.jsp?case_id=58273</a>
    <br>
    </span><span style="font-family:monospace"></span><br>
    <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">About Debian
    ------------

    The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who
    volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free operating system Debian.

    </pre>
    <span style="font-family:monospace">Contact Information
    <br>
    -------------------
    <br>
    <br>
    For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
    <br>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.debian.org/">https://www.debian.org/</a> or send mail to <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:press@debian.org">&lt;press@debian.org&gt;</a>.<br>
    <br>
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