Perhaps this article has raised more questions than it has answered. The point has been to consider a newer form of conduct in cyberspace that makes unauthorized use of words and phrases in which other people may hold legal rights: clickfarming. In particular, the analysis of clickfarming under trademark infringement, dilution, the ACPA, and the UDRP emphasizes the way in which developments in online practice routinely require a rethinking of extant legal principles, even relatively new legal principles such as those found in the ACPA and the UDRP. Cyberspace has always posed problems for legal development in that cyberspace activities tend to develop at an extremely fast pace. Law has traditionally lagged behind society's needs and has tended to respond to those needs rather than anticipate them. This is probably as it should be for the most part. However, most of our legal processes are based on the availability of more time between a social or economic development and its need for regulation than is typically the case online. Thus, in cyberspace, approaches to regulation like the UDRP which are private and can respond more quickly to the needs of the Internet community are a particularly useful addition to standard legal processes involving litigation and legislation.
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