http://www.CompanyNameSucks.com: The Horizontal Effect of Fundamental Rights on ‘Private Parties’ within Autonomous Internet Law

Abstract

In previous conflicts about domain names within the global address system, German judges only had to answer relatively simply legal questions. Under which conditions does a domain name, which is easily confused with another name, infringe the rights of the name owner? Pervious decisions have identified infringement in the following cases:- The name and domain name are, to a significant degree, identical or may be easily confused with one another,- The user of the domain name possesses no personal right to the name, and- The name usage is likely to promote mistakes about the origin of the web-site.

Global Legal Pluralism

“…Many studies of nonstate law in globalization share the emphasis on functional coupling and institutional foundation over social embeddedness, even if they do not necessarily adopt Teubner's systems theory. This is true for studies of a lex sportiva (an autonomous law of sport) (Foster 2003, Latty 2007), a lex constructionis (an autonomous law for construction projects) (Molineaux 1997, Perez 2002, Vec 2006, lex digitalis (a self-administered law of the Internet) (Karavas & Teubner 2003), and other systems of nonstate transnational law. The result is a global legal pluralism defined more from the top down than from the bottom up: an internal differentiation of global law, not a multitude of varied local laws.…”

Dos Problemas Constitucionais Diluídos Na Rede À Construção De Uma Lex Meta

“…O centro do sistema jurídico é o tribunal (ou um órgão que tome a decisão de resolver o conflito ou validar o direito). Ao contrário de ordens jurídicas transnacionais (como a lex mercatoria e a lex sportiva), a internet não consegue criar uma única ordem jurídica que fale integralmente por si (KARAVAS;TEUBNER, 2003, p. 27-31). Por conta dessa limitação, é equivocada a ideia comumente cultivada de que as disputas pelo nome de domínio (por exemplo: google.…”