jelton - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Darth Vader (Score 2, Informative) 205

by jelton on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @02:30AM (#25538021) Attached to: 10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA Is the Law That "Saved the Web"

Headline: 10 Years Later, Misunderstood DMCA Is the Law That "Saved the Web"

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices of anti-copyright extremists suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

Submission + - Is a Domain Name an Automatic Trademark? 2

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TheWorkingStiff

on Saturday November 03, 2007 @03:12PM

TheWorkingStiff writes: "I registered a descriptive domain name like "thesimpledog.com" and started a blog on it. About a month later I get a threatening letter from a link farmer who owns "simpledog.com" The owner of simpledog.com is claiming that he owns the trademark to the words simpledog even though he has no real business or rights by that name other than a static page with some text and Adsense slapped on it. There is no product, service or brand whatsoever

Does simply registering a two or three word domain give you instant trademark rights to those words even though you've never done anything with them? Should I give up my domain to a link farmer who is trying to bully me, or does he have a valid right to any phrase he registers that isn't already trademarked?"

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