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Re: Anyone heard this story yet?
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Thu, 31 Aug 2000 20:17:21 GMT
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Eric Kingsley <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote:
> Sorry but I just have to throw my 2 cents in here. IMHO this is TLC's own darn
> fault. It shows their incompitance when it comes to the internet. They should
Agreed. In this particular case, it seems pretty logical that
"legolandwindsor" is probably associated with the Lego theme park with a
similar name. However, things get a lot more cloudy when it's sting.com
(which the pop star recently tried to take) or corinthians.com (which is
being turned over to a Brazilian soccer team named "The Corinthians" since
they _obviously_ own that word). It'd be too bad to set dangerous precedents
with cases like this. It's hard to know of a good way to apply trademark law
to domain names, since there isn't a clear mapping. (Trademarks are
limited by class and geography; domain names obviously aren't.)
Now, if the guy were selling clone Lego bricks under that domain name, or
pretending to be Lego, or otherwise defaming them, sure, that's a clear-cut
trademark case. If he were beyond a shadow of a doubt doing it to resell the
domain, then he would be a jerk, but not necessarily doing something that
should be illegal. And finally, if he is doing it just to be silly, which is
really what it sounds like, well: there's definite room for fair use of
trademarks there.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
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| (...) I wonder though; how can they be expected to police all misuse of their name in a case like this? If they copyright legolandwindsor.com, what's to prevent some knucklehead from using "legoland-windsor.com" or "legoland_windsor.com" or even (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Sorry but I just have to throw my 2 cents in here. IMHO this is TLC's own darn fault. It shows their incompitance when it comes to the internet. They should have registered www.legolandwindsor.com when they named it Legoland Windsor. Granted (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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