abrahma Kumar wrote:What are the chances that this dispute could go down in history as the Mother of all Public Domain Howlers?
As far as I read it, to continue on would be suicidal
BUT they have started a legal process and so the only
honorable way out would be fall on their own sword and concede the case. But, that is not the sort of advice attorneys give because they are paid and earn their free NOT on the basis of right and wrong, and the truth, BUT making and taking the best advantage for their clients.
My prediction would be ...
and we all know the veracity of predictions within the Brahma Kumari community ... that the next thing the BKWSO and their attorneys will offer would be a licensing deal whereby they offer the administration of this domain name SOME rights based upon certain conditions. Or else drop the front and act personally on behalf of Hansa thereby reducing it to a personal fight between Hansa and the registrant of the domain name. Of course, this forum and site is about far more than one individual's input.
I think it would be a mistake for the moderators to accept such offer because, apart from allowing the BKWSO/U a channel to infer with the running of the site and forum, doing so would thereby also recognize that the BKWSO of San Antonio
HAD any such rights in the first place.
I might be wrong but I don't think that it can prove that it can claims rights on word marks that have been used internationally and by other independent American corporations for decades. To do so, the BKWSO of San Antonio would have to produce papers supporting its position which have already been contradicted by Jayanti Kirpalani's secretary in the Internation office. If the BKWSO of San Antonio has NO RIGHTS, and is NOT acting under instruction of the rights owners ... does that not make the proceedings fraudulent?
In my opinion, professional fronts aside, the current "empire" appears to run like an underground organization, everything being done on verbal agreement, internal power struggles, grace and favor appointments and promotion for money, property, associated status or services rendered. Its all very ad hoc.
Can any centerniwassis or ex-centerniwassis chip in here? How were they appointed their fiefdoms? and what were the terms and conditions?
Wikipedia wrote:Under the system of feudalism, a fiefdom, feud or fee often consisted of inheritable lands or revenue-producing property granted by a liege lord in return for a form of allegiance, originally to giving the means to fulfill military duties when called upon. Anything of value could be held in fief, such as an office, a right of exploitation or a revenue rather than the land it comes from.