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1、BostonCollegeLawReviewVolume53
2、Issue1Article21-1-2012AnEmpiricalAnalysisofFairUseDecisionsUndertheUniformDomain-NameDispute-ResolutionPolicyDavidA.SimonHarvardLawSchool,dsimon@llm11.law.harvard.eduFollowthisandadditionalworksat:http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclrPartoftheIntellec
3、tualPropertyCommons,andtheInternationalLawCommonsRecommendedCitationDavidA.Simon,AnEmpiricalAnalysisofFairUseDecisionsUndertheUniformDomain-NameDispute-ResolutionPolicy,53B.C.L.Rev.65(2012),http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclr/vol53/iss1/2ThisArticleisbroughttoyouforfreeandopenacc
4、essbytheLawJournalsatDigitalCommons@BostonCollegeLawSchool.IthasbeenacceptedforinclusioninBostonCollegeLawReviewbyanauthorizedadministratorofDigitalCommons@BostonCollegeLawSchool.Formoreinformation,pleasecontactnick.szydlowski@bc.edu.ANEMPIRICALANALYSISOFFAIRUSEDECISIONSUNDERTHEUN
5、IFORMDOMAIN-NAMEDISPUTE-RESOLUTIONPOLICYDavidA.Simon*Abstract:Sinceitsinceptionin1999,theWorldIntellectualPropertyOr-ganization(WIPO)hasresolvednearly22,000domain-namedisputesun-dertheUniformDomain-NameDispute-ResolutionPolicy(UDRP)—amandatoryarbitrationpolicyimplementedbytheInter
6、netCorporationforAssignedNamesandNumbers(ICANN).TheUDRPallowstheholderofalegallyprotectabletrademarktoinitiateproceedingstocancelasimilardomainnameorhaveittransferredtothetrademarkowner.Domain-nameholders,though,haveanumberofdefenses,includingthattheyareusingtheirdomainnamesinanon
7、commercial,fairmanner.AlthoughseveralempiricalstudieshaveanalyzedvariousaspectsoftheUDRP,nonehavespecificallyexaminedthisfairusedefense.Thisstudydoeswhatothershavenot.ItanalyzesthefairusedefenseindecisionsbeforeWIPO.UsingWIPO’sonlinedecisiondatabase,thisstudymakestwoimportantfindi
8、ngs.First,respondentsfromtheUnitedStatesaremorelikelythanthosefromothercountriestosucceedonafairusedefense.Second,arbitratorsfromtheUnitedStatesaremorelikelythanthosefromothercountriestofindthatarespondent’suseofadomainnamewasfair.Thismeansthat,undertheUDRP,respondentsfromtheUnite
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