Purpose of the Commission
Each independent commissioner and the international commission both seek to assign, appoint, identify and recognize commission recipients with honor, integrity and transparency to be able to serve as public figures, philanthropic aid workers or practitioner diplomats. To accomplish this we must defend our objectives, policies, and regulate the use of the title as a formal, official and professional one.
The Goodwill Ambassador Commission was formed from multiple initiatives we have realized with goodwill ambassadors from the United Nations, the United States, the Commonwealth of Nations and other organizations to conserve and defend the descriptive, generic official and proper use of the idea of the "goodwill ambassador" as well as protect the term from ambiguous arbitrary and non-arbitrary uses as: 1) a title; 2) a trademark; 3) as part of a trade name; 4) a product name; 5) a domain name; 6) a copyright name or in anyway that: A) deprives another of a duly recognized honor; B) degrades a person or a program recognized by the commission; C) uses the title, copyright or common law trademark for commercial purposes or fundraising; D) commits fraud using the term; or E) reassigns the title or trademark to represent an unrelated idea.
All those persons that "use," our common law trademark "in commerce," assume risk, they are capable of creating a "likelihood of confusion" which will put them on our radar as potential defendants if we file a complaint against them in Federal Court. If the Goodwill Ambassador Commission or one of its members sends you a legal demand letter regarding the use of the trademark or title you should take it seriously, immediately find an attorney and seek a Declaratory Judgement in your local Federal Court stating that you are not infringing on our common law intellectual property, trademark, title or copyright. You will need to demonstrate that you have a predominant, precursory or preemptive right to our common law claims of 1964, 1980, 1992, 2009, and 2013. Once a lawsuit is filed it is too late to avoid becoming subject to providing the relief being sought which will usually involve a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction; plus reasonable legal fees, court costs, and damages including any engorged profits.
Likewise any company or person that intentionally borrows, confuses, defames, dilutes, disrupts, equivocates, impersonates, negates or uses the benevolence of the "idea" or brings harm in anyway to the reputation, goodwill, honor or respect of the title or trademark is subject to legal action by the Goodwill Ambassador Commission and a fine of not less than $10,000 per incident.
Most disputes can be resolved through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the acquisition of a limited use commercial license or a registered non-commercial Creative Commons attribution license.
