When I created the website www. Artcult.com (now www. Artcult.fr) some twelve years ago, I thought I would be the only one to use that name since I was the first to invent and use it without failin gto have it registered on the Internet and patented in France.
Alas, I forgot the formidable Webpirates, or rather the Webraptors, who diverted the name artcult to their own profit by taking advantage of the loopholes offered on the Internet as it would have cost me dearly to protect it outside France. Thus, I discovered that since the year 2000 several websites and organisations had been using the artcult title rather abusively such as www.artcult.at, www.artcult.de, www.theartcult.com,http://artcult.gciprojects.com/form.phporhttp://www.artcult.org/cstjust to metion these adresses.
In addition, some individuals also did not bother to seize the opportunity of using the name artcult such as a certain Colin Fabig based in Australia who dubbed himself as Art director of ArtCult, producing, managing and mentoring art and artists to "inspire intellectual and aesthetic orgasms". No need to say that I certainly did not have an orgasm in discovering such mischievous behaviour, which deeply affects the activity of www.artcult.fr . Lastly I learned that the Iranian authorities had arrested Amin Ghazai, director of the website journal Artcult, by accusing him of plotting against the State. While I feel quite sorry for what happened to this journalist, I cannot but deplore his use of the name artcult without my knowledge.
I did not spend 13 years of my life to work and fill a content of over 15,000 pages on www.artcult.fr in order to make this website a reference on the Internet just to accept now being robbed of a titled I invented and patented. I therefore feel the need to react against the abusive use of that name, which has been closely associated to mine, and regret that those who took the liberty of annexing it to develop their own activities did not bother to ask me if I was willing to give them permission to do so.
There is no need to say that the use by others of a name invented by someone is simply unacceptable for the simple reason that such behaviour is tantamount to a theft. Meanwhile, it seems that regulations on the Internet are too loose in this respect and that it would be time to determine that a website name should once an for all be registered in favour of the one who registered it without giving the opportunity to other individuals to add a simple prefix for the countries where they are based.
Adrian Darmon
When I created the website www. Artcult.com (now www. Artcult.fr) some twelve years ago, I thought I would be the only one to use that name since I was the first to invent and use it without failin gto have it registered on the Internet and patented in France.
Alas, I forgot the formidable Webpirates, or rather the Webraptors, who diverted the name artcult to their own profit by taking advantage of the loopholes offered on the Internet as it would have cost me dearly to protect it outside France. Thus, I discovered that since the year 2000 several websites and organisations had been using the artcult title rather abusively such as www.artcult.at, www.artcult.de, www.theartcult.com,http://artcult.gciprojects.com/form.phporhttp://www.artcult.org/cstjust to metion these adresses.
In addition, some individuals also did not bother to seize the opportunity of using the name artcult such as a certain Colin Fabig based in Australia who dubbed himself as Art director of ArtCult, producing, managing and mentoring art and artists to "inspire intellectual and aesthetic orgasms". No need to say that I certainly did not have an orgasm in discovering such mischievous behaviour, which deeply affects the activity of www.artcult.fr . Lastly I learned that the Iranian authorities had arrested Amin Ghazai, director of the website journal Artcult, by accusing him of plotting against the State. While I feel quite sorry for what happened to this journalist, I cannot but deplore his use of the name artcult without my knowledge.
I did not spend 13 years of my life to work and fill a content of over 15,000 pages on www.artcult.fr in order to make this website a reference on the Internet just to accept now being robbed of a titled I invented and patented. I therefore feel the need to react against the abusive use of that name, which has been closely associated to mine, and regret that those who took the liberty of annexing it to develop their own activities did not bother to ask me if I was willing to give them permission to do so.
There is no need to say that the use by others of a name invented by someone is simply unacceptable for the simple reason that such behaviour is tantamount to a theft. Meanwhile, it seems that regulations on the Internet are too loose in this respect and that it would be time to determine that a website name should once an for all be registered in favour of the one who registered it without giving the opportunity to other individuals to add a simple prefix for the countries where they are based.
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