> I disagree, especially in non-US courts, largely because of the "commercial" nature of the site.
Just run a Foundation / Charitable organization (Stichting) under Dutch law, which is not-for-profit. It's possible to gain money with ads, or sell products. So you can pay the hosting. It's even allowed to give people a monthly income. As long it's not making profit (in the end you'll need 0).
A Charitable organisation (Stichting) is always 'non commercial' under Dutch law.
Just to mention Inter IKEA Systems B.V. is a company from The Netherlands.
Not sure what would happen if someone would host IKEAhackers.net from The Netherlands. To sue someone in the USA over "intellectual property rights" is quite easy, our system works quite different.
We're allowed to use someones name (Reclame Code Commissie), Dreft is allowed to make ads which say Ajax makes bad dish-soap. But this falls under another category, since IKEAhackers is not advertising for DealExtreme products.
http://www.iusmentis.com/merken/grappen-parodie/
Frew quotes:
> Verwarring alleen is niet genoeg. Verwarring met een origineel merk is alleen inbreuk als het gebruik ook commercieel is.
> Ook nietcommercieel gebruik van een merk kan merkinbreuk zijn. Het gebruik moet dan afbreuk doen aan de reputatie van het merk. Hier loopt een merkparodie al snel tegenaan.
Which says in English, that parodies are forbidden if "commercial use" and has "undermine the reputation".
IKEAhackers is a non-commercial (ads to pay hosting is NON profit) parody, right? And gains IKEA customers.
Would IKEAhackers.net be safer in The Netherlands?
Just run a Foundation / Charitable organization (Stichting) under Dutch law, which is not-for-profit. It's possible to gain money with ads, or sell products. So you can pay the hosting. It's even allowed to give people a monthly income. As long it's not making profit (in the end you'll need 0). A Charitable organisation (Stichting) is always 'non commercial' under Dutch law.
Just to mention Inter IKEA Systems B.V. is a company from The Netherlands.
Not sure what would happen if someone would host IKEAhackers.net from The Netherlands. To sue someone in the USA over "intellectual property rights" is quite easy, our system works quite different.
We're allowed to use someones name (Reclame Code Commissie), Dreft is allowed to make ads which say Ajax makes bad dish-soap. But this falls under another category, since IKEAhackers is not advertising for DealExtreme products.
http://www.iusmentis.com/merken/grappen-parodie/ Frew quotes: > Verwarring alleen is niet genoeg. Verwarring met een origineel merk is alleen inbreuk als het gebruik ook commercieel is. > Ook nietcommercieel gebruik van een merk kan merkinbreuk zijn. Het gebruik moet dan afbreuk doen aan de reputatie van het merk. Hier loopt een merkparodie al snel tegenaan.
Which says in English, that parodies are forbidden if "commercial use" and has "undermine the reputation".
IKEAhackers is a non-commercial (ads to pay hosting is NON profit) parody, right? And gains IKEA customers.
Would IKEAhackers.net be safer in The Netherlands?