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EFF:

The firm of Jones Day filed the lawsuit against the real estate news site Blockshopper.com, alleging that using its trademark “Jones Day” to refer to the firm in a headline and linking to the Jones Day website could lead to confusion over the sponsorship of the site. In its amicus brief, EFF and Public Citizen argue that these routine references to Jones Day are well-established fair uses of a trademark and clearly protected by the First Amendment.

JDRP nine years ago:

Newly elected [...] put it best when he spoke of the lingering problems with the [...] agreements: “I don’t like these agreements… This is the best agreement we could have, given the circumstances… What I still wonder is why the circumstances were artificially altered.” He went on to say that he thinks the U.S. government owes us an explanation of how this whole fiasco came about.

—ICANN boardmember Amadeu Abril i Abril on the NSI agreements

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