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Re: Anyone heard this story yet?
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:47:21 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.general, Matthew Miller writes:
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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.
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> > Agreed. In this particular case, it seems pretty logical that
> > "legolandwindsor" is probably associated with the Lego theme park with a
> > similar name.
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> I wonder though; how can they be expected to police all misuse of their > name in a case like this?
By having an ever vigilant, and understanding AFOL community?
> 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?
Point-taken, but there is an issue of possible "abuse" of trademarks here.
If a site registered as http://the_lego_sales_shop.com and only sold clone
bricks that would in IMHO be illegal. ( misleadig advertising?)..
Persoanlly I think there should be a way of letting Lego know about
potential cybersqautting on and misuse of 'sensitve' names.
(lugnet.lego.tradmarks_abuse, Todd?)
Alex.
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| (...) Right. That's both illegal and smarmy. Just registering the domain with the hope of selling it to Lego also under the new law illegal and definitely smarmy (although having that be illegal sort of troubles me -- just because it's not nice, or (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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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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