Posted on 02/09/2013 5:38:42 PM PST by smoothsailing
February 9, 2013
Rosie Gray
Ron Paul has filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization against the proprietors of RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org, according to a blog post on their site on Friday.
The authors of RonPaul.com see the move as the ultimate betrayal from a politician who, more than many others, depended on an astounding level of grassroots support on the Internet in order to keep his longshot presidential campaigns running.
"Last month, after Ron Paul expressed regret on the Alex Jones show over not owning RonPaul.com (in an interview titled "Ron Paul: The Internet Is Our Last Chance to Awaken America"), dozens of supporters urged us to contact Ron Paul to work out a deal," the owners of RonPaul.com write.
They say they offered Paul the use of RonPaul.org as a "free gift" but wanted to keep RonPaul.com. Their price, should Paul really want RonPaul.com, was $250,000.
"Claims that we tried to sell Ron Paul "his name" for $250k or even $800k are completely untrue, and there is little doubt that our mailing list would have enabled Ron Paul to raise several million dollars for the liberty movement this year. It would have been a win/win/win situation for everyone involved," they write.
Even more shocking to the proprietors is that Paul's complaint was lodged with a U.N. agency, an organization that garners mistrust among libertarians....
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
How’s that third party thing workin out for ya.
With the UN no less
Obviously this means the UN stealing websites is somewhere in the Constitution and us peons just don’t know it as well as Dr. Paul.
He was, after all, a combat OBGYN who helped write the Constitution while taking morning constitutionals.
Poor Ron. Though I disagree with him on a lot of things, I do think he got an unfair hearing, but this is just hypocrisy. Going to the UN? No single organization since the Democrat Party has done more to undermine the constitution.
After that outrageous comment Ron Paul made the other day about murdered former SEAL Chris Kyle....”He who lives by the sword dies by the sword”....Ron Paul can go pound sand.
Ron Paul has gone over the edge. He has totally disgraced himself.
Funny, I thought copyright law was opposed by most Libertarians.
Hypocrite much, RP?
the Branch Paulinians are hardest hit..
Ron Paul has filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization against the proprietors of RonPaul.com and RonPaul.org... the owners of RonPaul.com... say they offered Paul the use of RonPaul.org as a "free gift" but wanted to keep RonPaul.com. Their price, should Paul really want RonPaul.com, was $250,000. "Claims that we tried to sell Ron Paul "his name" for $250k or even $800k are completely untrue, and there is little doubt that our mailing list would have enabled Ron Paul to raise several million dollars... It would have been a win/win/win situation for everyone involved," they write. Even more shocking to the proprietors is that Paul's complaint was lodged with a U.N. agency, an organization that garners mistrust among libertarians...
I don’t blame him at all for wanting control of his name.
self serving whack job....
Lots of people have the same name.
The fact that he went to the UN shows he’s a complete fraud.
I don’t know if he trademarked the name, which would give him legal standing... Maybe this will be reported on at some point.
I also do not know why he chose to go to the UN... Maybe this will be reported on at some point.
Neither bothers me.
Who knows, next maybe he'll round up all the other Ron Pauls in the world and file a class action law suit. :)
I just skimmed through the filed complaint. He does own the Ron Paul trademark.
Probably unenforceable since they’ve owned the domain since “Record created on: 2000-11-22 18:05:56 UTC”
Since Ron Paul hasn’t enforced his trademark since 2000 he really has no case to do so now.
I don’t know the law, but of course when does the UN care about law? Since he has historically been opposed to Israel and they are too, he may be successful...
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