Expert Advice for Avoiding Complaints about Your Gripe Site

Here is an excerpt from an article posted on the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) blog called, “Avoiding Gripes About Your Gripe (or Parody) Site.”   The article provides several tips and tools gripe or parody site owners can use in order to avoid trademark and copyright infringement claims.  Here are the six recommendations by the EFF:

UDRP: Know Your Arbitrator

We have expressed the importance of knowing your UDRP panelists in any Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).  A recent UDRP arbitration decision has received attention after an arbitrator chose not to exercise his discretion and, therefore, did not consider a response filed within one hour of the response deadline.  Not only has the merit of the decision itself been called into question, but the action of the arbitrator himself has been discussed as well in an article entitled: UDRP Arbitration: A Case of Laziness?.