[cc-humanrights] infographic ICANN & Human Rights v0.3 pls comment

[Niels ten Oever]

Hi all,

To make this more clear, is this concept part of specific policy / text
where we can link / refer to in the graph?

Cheers,

Niels

Niels ten Oever
Head of Digital

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On 06/01/2016 10:50 PM, avri doria wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While I have long felt there is a naive right of the people to the
> linguistic commons, i am not sure how that roots into the UDHR derived
> rights.   It is one of the important questions, but I do not see how we
> argue against tradmarks from a UDHR perspective.
> 
> Also I thought that the NCSG was divided on this issue.  We saw that
> division in the argument for private use gTLDs, with claims that a
> company did not have the right to use the gTLD book for its own closed
> purposes.  There are those, like me, who thought that of course they
> could do that.  There those who argue that this is the egregious
> cultural theft.   I do not know how to approach that issue from a UDHR
> based rights perspective.  Would be good to getndle on it since it is a
> persistant issue and I expect will need to be dealt with in the New gTLD
> Subsequent Procedure PDP.
> 
> avri
> 
> 
> On 01-Jun-16 15:33, Kathy Kleiman wrote:
>>
>>
>> <<Do I read this correctly as ensuring that there is no presumption
>> that trademarks trump other uses of domain name?
>>
>> As you know, I'd support that, but I'm just trying to ensure I'm clear
>> what you mean by/**/"a fundamental right to … allow us all to use
>> basic dictionary words, our names, and last names, freely and openly…"/*>>
>> */
>>
>> Pranesh, I think you have summarized the concept brilliantly and
>> succinctly. Tx you and yes!
>>
>> Kathy
>>
>>
>> On 6/1/2016 3:07 PM, Pranesh Prakash wrote:
>>> Kathy Kleiman <kathy at kathykleiman.com> [2016-06-01 14:32:54 -0400]:
>>>> The right to use domain names to help us label our websites for our
>>>> children, small businesses, causes and organizations in ways that are
>>>> legal and noninfringing seems the most basic of human rights.  But on
>>>> the Internet and in ICANN, large companies would like to reserve "their
>>>> words" and block all others from registering them in domain names.
>>>>
>>>> /*I would urge us a fundamental right to all to push back -- and allow
>>>> us all to use basic dictionary words, our names and last names, freely
>>>> and openly in all legitimate and legal ways without prior blocking or
>>>> prior review. *//*We have fought for this Right to Words since the
>>>> founding of ICANN -- is this something you might capture in this table?
>>>
>>> Do I read this correctly as ensuring that there is no presumption
>>> that trademarks trump other uses of domain name?
>>>
>>> As you know, I'd support that, but I'm just trying to ensure I'm
>>> clear what you mean by "a fundamental right to … allow us all to use
>>> basic dictionary words, our names, and last names, freely and openly…"
>>>
>>
>>
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