Taubman Sucks (2004)
7m
Running Time
June 19, 2004Release Date
Plot.
Henry Mishkoff just wanted to make a web site about his favorite shopping mall, but when the owners found his site they sent their lawyers in, setting the ball rolling for what would become a major chapter in internet law history.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Henry Mishkoff
Self
Milton Mueller
Self
Theo Lipfert
Director / Sound Designer
Stefan Hakenberg
Original Music Composer
Jeremiah Slovarp
Mixing Engineer
Details.
Wiki.
Taubman Sucks is a short documentary about a precedent-setting intellectual property lawsuit.
The documentary was written and directed by filmmaker Theo Lipfert, an associate professor in the School of Film and Photography at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. An original score was created for the documentary by composer Stefan Hakenberg of Juneau, Alaska.
The six-minute film explores Taubman v. WebFeats, a lawsuit that involved the complex relationships between domain names, trademarks, and free speech. As the first "sucks.com" case to reach the level of the United States Court of Appeals, the decision in Taubman v. WebFeats established precedents concerning the non-commercial use of trademarks in domain names.