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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Wow, thanks for sharing this, Joly!!<br>
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<div style="">[Disclosure BLIP director Jonathan Askin is on the
ISOC-NY Board]</div>
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<span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:16px">Another
BLIP client, </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.brooklaw.edu/newsandevents/news/2013/www.chickfilafoundation.com"
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style="color:rgb(0,101,153);text-decoration:initial;font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:16px">Chick
Fil A Foundation</a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:16px">,
recently won a victory in a Uniform Domain Name Dispute
Resolution case (UDRP) against Chick-fil-A, the national fast
food chain. Students in the BLIP clinic conducted research and
drafted pleadings in defense of their clients Jason Selvig and
Davram Stiefler, two New York based comedians and parodists
who created a website to criticize the controversial views
expressed by Chick-fil-A and its president with regards to
same-sex marriage.</span><br
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<span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:16px">Chick-fil-A’s
parent company, CFA Properties, Inc. brought the UDRP claim
challenging Selvig and Davram’s rights in the domain name,
arguing that it was confusingly similar to their trademark and
that it was registered in bad faith. In response, students in
BLIP, in partnership with the Dumbo law firm of Lewis &
Lin, argued that their clients had a legitimate right and
interest in the domain name as they were simply exercising
their First Amendment right of free speech and their right to
criticize the controversial views expressed by Chick-fil-A.
They also argued that the company could not prove bad faith,
as Selvig and Stiefler were not seeking to commercially
benefit from the website. </span><br
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<span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:16px">“BLIP
students won this victory for the clients in the end by
drawing a line between lawful parody and unlawful satire,”
said Askin. “This was a great experience for students to
defend clients in an actual case and really get a feel for the
complexities at the intersection of internet law and free
speech.”</span><br
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