by Rodney D. Ryder & Ashwin Madhavan [The Icfai University Journal of Intellectual Property Rights]
Abstract: The advent of technologies has brought many complexities. The World Wide Web and domain names are the contributions of technological development during the recent past. The new tech-inventions have resulted in various issues of the intellectual property rights and their protection. The relations between the domain name and copyrights on one hand and the trademarks on the other, are well envisaged and an opinion is cropping up whether the use of marks in the name and style of domain names are diluting the trademarks.The World Wide Web or the cyberspace is becoming a platform for squatting activities resulting in loss to the copyright and trademark owners. Though the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) are trying to resolve the related disputes, they are not able to avert the squatting and provide required protection.
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