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Re: Anyone heard this story yet?
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Date: 
Thu, 31 Aug 2000 20:28:07 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Miller writes:

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.

Agreed. In this particular case, it seems pretty logical that
"legolandwindsor" is probably associated with the Lego theme park with a
similar name.

  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 "lego-windsor.com"?  Realistically, and in all seriousness, how can
any corporation, even an incompetent one, hope to guard against all these
permutations of its name?

     Dave!



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  Re: Anyone heard this story yet?
 
(...) Quick answer... It can't. Long answer. Companies should use some common sense and be proactive about registering domains. You won't stop everyone by any means but a company needs to take the obvious and protect that. www.legolandwindsor.com is (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Anyone heard this story yet?
 
(...) By having an ever vigilant, and understanding AFOL community? (...) Point-taken, but there is an issue of possible "abuse" of trademarks here. If a site registered as (URL) and only sold clone bricks that would in IMHO be illegal. ( misleadig (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Anyone heard this story yet?
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)

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