Chanel has seized the domain figure of more than 600 websites that trade imitative products thanks to aseries of unprecedented court order . Search engines and social connection have also been order to “ de - index ” the infringing sites . Someone demand to distinguish the judge that the SOPA has n’t passed yet .
The luxury goods purveyor has filed a joint causa in Nevada against C of sites that it claim are selling fake products . The initial injunction forced about 400 domains to be transfer to GoDaddy — why GoDaddy?—and the register vary to muse Chanel ’s ownership . What ’s more Facebook , Twitter , Google+ , Bing , Yahoo , and Google were told to end listing the sites .
With the original determination in the can , Chanel can now habituate it to add extra defendant to the courtship and to seize their domain as well . That ’s precisely what has happened . On November 14th 228 more web site were added to Chanel ’s suit . None of them could even respond until the complaints had been approved by the court of justice .
The action mechanism specifically aim sites with domain name that suggest they sell fake products . You ’re familiar with the case : chanelbagsonline1.com . After ordering goods from the website , tec limit that they are imitative and the order for the domain name conveyance and de - indexing come down .
As Venekat Balasubramanipoints out on Eric Goldman ’s blogthe decisions are problematic . It ’s not clear-cut that a court can order a domain registry changed or how it can force Google to Diamond State - list a site . There ’s no law authorize these method of remedy and neither GoDaddy nor Google et al are named in the complaint . Furthermore , these are enjoining , which mean that the individual lawsuits have n’t been break up . That the a fellowship is ordered to finish is one thing — to channelise their attribute to Chanel is only another .
While there ’s no deny the legitimacy of complaint against ship’s company which soak fake Chanel wares , judges need to be very careful that they do n’t make far - reach and unprecedented decisions . Interestingly it ’s provisions allow judicature to order domain de - listing and registry changes that has a lot of people all rag up about the nominate Stop Online Piracy Act . The public and our representatives in government are still fiercely debating these issues . If companies can simply rely on court to invent the rules for how to deal with these trouble , why are we arguing about SOPA at all ? The parties at fault happen to be clear in the Chanel case , but it ’s not always go to be that dilute and ironical . [ Eric Goldman ’s BlogviaArs Technica ]
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