Thursday, December 29

JEWS FOR JESUS SUES GOOGLE
Someone set-up a Blogger site and named it jewsforjesus.blogspot.com. The Jews for Jesus organization isn't excited about the site's use of their trademark ("Jews for Jesus") in its name and that the site is critical of the organization. Since Google owns Blogger the Jews for Jesus people are suing them for damages and to have the site removed.

As I see it, with my vast and extensive legal background (or lack thereof), the very fact that the site is set-up to criticize the organization may constitute fairuse of the name. As much as I agree with the objectives of Jews for Jesus, I think they're mistaken on this one. There is absolutely no one who is going to think that the blog site originates with or represents the Jews for Jesus organization.

Jews for Jesus needs to let this one go. If they fight this battle the ill will they create in cyberspace will do more to devalue their fine name than having some little-known guy with a blog criticize them. They've already given him more visibility than he would have ever had if they hadn't made an issue out of this.

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