BILL NUMBER: AB 984	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nava

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 17525 of the Business and Professions
Code, relating to cyber piracy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 984, as introduced, Nava. Cyber piracy.
   Existing law provides that it is unlawful for a person, with a bad
faith intent, to register, traffic in, or use an Internet domain
name that is identical or confusingly similar to the personal name of
another living person or deceased personality, with certain
exceptions, as specified. Existing law makes a violation of that
provision a misdemeanor, as specified.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 17525 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   17525.  (a) It is unlawful for a person, with a bad faith intent
 ,  to register, traffic in, or use a domain name, that is
identical or confusingly similar to the personal name of another
living person or deceased personality, without regard to the goods or
services of the parties.
   (b) This section shall not apply if the name registered as a
domain name is connected to a work of authorship, including, but not
limited to, fictional or nonfictional entertainment, and dramatic,
literary, audiovisual, or musical works.
   (c) A domain name registrar, a domain name registry, or any other
domain name registration authority that takes any action described in
subdivision (a) that affects a domain name shall not be liable to
any person for that action, regardless of whether the domain name is
finally determined to infringe or dilute a trademark or service mark.