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Salaam Bombay, Little Prince to help teachers understand children better

The adventures of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Little Prince and the children of Salaam Bombay will help breed the country’s future schoolteachers.

Reading the book and watching Mira Nair’s film is part of the NCTE’s model syllabus for the two-year Diploma in Elementary Education course so that budding teachers can understand how differently the minds of children of different backgrounds work. Revamping the course is part of the process of implementing the RTE Act, which aims at removing discrimination from the classroom.

Salaam Bombay will show teachers how harsh a life Krishna led on the streets, selling tea and taking care of drug dealer/addict Chillum. Krishna dreams of earning Rs 500 and return to his mother in the village, gets into a juvenile home instead, but returns to the streets and keeps chasing his dream.

Students pursuing the diploma would need to observe the diverse needs of children of various backgrounds. They would pick subjects for case studies: a child from an affluent family, another living in the slums, or a third who has no home beyond the street.

For a country seeking to universalise schooling, very little attention had been given to teachers so far, said Poonam Batra, professor of education, CIE, DU, and convener, NCTE Review Committee. The National Curriculum Framework (NCF 2005) that proposed reforms in education observed that teachers were unable to connect with children and stressed a curriculum change.

“DIETs (District Institutes of Education and Training) have been offering teacher training and we are telling to them revamp the course,” Batra said. “We hope the proposed syllabus will work as a basic framework and states will implement it. Delhi will be the first to incorporate it starting next year,” Batra said.

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Do Trademarks Always Trump Domain Names? Not always ...

Copyright © 2010 Chip Cooper

Online start-ups are faced with the daunting task of selecting a domain name that will withstand legal challenges.

There's a general belief among online start-ups that a trademark owner will always trump a domain name registrant with the same or confusingly similar domain name. That's not always the result... as two recent 2010 UDRP decisions point out.

The UDRP

What is the UDRP, and why is it important?

The UDRP acronym stands for the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. The UDRP is a set of procedures and rules that are supposed to help determine who should prevail in a dispute over domain name ownership.

The UDRP is important because it provides a faster and cheaper way to resolve a domain name dispute than a full-blown lawsuit in a court of law. Instead of litigation, it's an administrative proceeding where the contestants present written arguments to a panelist-arbitrator who issues a binding decision. In-person hearings (including hearings by teleconference, videoconference, and web conference) are permitted only in exceptional cases, and are therefore rare.

The UDRP has not been without its critics. Most of the criticism centers on the fact that the UDRP was established to benefit trademark owners in taking non-trademark owners to task in domain name disputes. And UDRP critics often point out the fact the UDRP decisions seem to come out overwhelmingly in favor of trademark owners.

There are three requirements for a trademark owner-complainant to prevail over a domain name-respondent in a UDRP proceeding:

1 - the domain name registered by the respondent is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights;

2 - the respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name; and

3 - the domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith by the respondent.

The Arizona State Trailer Sales Case

This case involved requirement no. 1 above.

The complainant, Arizona State Trailer Sales, argued that the respondent's littledealerrv.com domain name was confusingly similar to the complainant's registered mark, LITTLE DEALER LITTLE PRICES and the complainant's common law marks, LITTLE DEALER LITTLE PRICES RV and LITTLE DEALER .

The respondent argued that it should prevail because its registration of its littledealerrv.com domain name occurred prior to the complainant's registration of its trademark.

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