FC: Washington Post tells anti-abortion activist to hand over domain

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

The Washington Post's nastygram:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/wp.purdy.letter.092702.pdf

Previous Politech message from Bill Purdy:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03764.html

-Declan

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http://news.com.com/2100-1023-959992.html

   Washington Post battles domain claim
   By Declan McCullagh 
   September 27, 2002, 4:22 PM PT

   The Washington Post Co. threatened an anti-abortion activist with
   legal action on Friday for registering a similar domain name and
   snatching e-mail messages intended for reporters.
   
   Bill Purdy, who lives in South Saint Paul, Minn., has registered
   WPNI.org, which is similar to the WPNI.com domain name that many
   Washington Post-Newsweek employees have as part of their e-mail
   addresses.
   
   Purdy already is being sued by The Washington Post and the Coca-Cola
   Company for registering a slew of domains such as
   WashingtonPostMurders.com and MyCoca-Cola.com. Dismissing his claims
   that the domains were intended as political protests against the
   companies' allegedly pro-abortion stances, a federal judge in July
   ordered Purdy to turn them over to the plaintiffs.

   [...]



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