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| (...) Legally, Lego can't necessarily stop someone else from getting the domain "ThisSiteIsSponsored...Lego.com". However, in some countries (US at least, I assume many others), Lego has a copyright to their name. So they could take it to court and (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Yes they can. It not only blatantly contains the word "LEGO" in the domain name, but it makes an untrue statement of sponsorship, thereby encouraging anyone who casually stumbles across the website to assume that TLC does actually sponsor that (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Slight correction: You can't copyright names. However, they are covered by trademarks or service marks. The distinction is important, as they follow different rules than copyright does. (22 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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| (...) You're not using a standard character in the second case there, so I can't tell what you mean exactly, but I'm assuming you mean TM. The distinction isn't actually the one you're making; the full r-in-a-circle symbol means that the trademark (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Oh? By means of a court case, sure, but can they legally stop you before you even register the name? IE is there some sort of law in place to proactively prevent me from squatting a trademarked named site? I mean, sure, once Lego finds out (...) (22 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Actually, I am. I pulled both of the characters from the Times New Roman (a universally accepted "standard" font) character map. If you can't see it, you must not be using a standardized font. I know that some fonts bump the non-keyboard (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Well, there is technically one way they can do it. They could spend gobs of money to register everything that you could possibly think of. I know Lucasfilm does that to a limited extent (type in the name of pretty much any major Star Wars (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Yes, that's true. The current limit on second-level domain name length is 63 characters. Alphanumeric plus -, basically. Assume a four letter name, like Lego, and that's still getting near a *google* possibilities, give or take a few powers of (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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| (...) The font (i.e. the shapes of Times New Roman) is fine. It's the character encoding -- which in this case is neither standard nor universal. The problem here is Microsoft -- it's one of their not-so-subtle attempts to subvert the Internet. (I'm (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Here's a nice domain name: (URL) regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (22 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| thanx to all i think this subject will still excite ppl as i'm relatively new :)) here i was curious about this i assube you will say i'm boring but if TLC has lawyers good enough they could force "all" lego funs to shut their fun sites because they (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Yes, but TLC don't want it's fans to turn away from them so they will never hunt down all of us who have LEGO content on our websites. Most of us have a disclaimer telling visitors it's not sponsored by TLC anyway (as wanted by TLC in their (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Exactly. I've lost track of the number of times kids have written e-mail asking how to buy stuff from MaskofDestiny.com. Sometimes it's official products that I've photographed at Toy Fair or reviewed, other times it's official stuff that's (...) (22 years ago, 18-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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