Using Your Own Name May Be Infringement, Part 2

phillymjs writes "We're probably all familiar with Uzi Nissan and his fight to keep his nissan.com domain name from the clutches of Nissan Motors. Well, more same-name idiocy came to light today-- the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that their staff music writer, Bill Wyman, has received a cease-and-desist letter from lawyers representing former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, for "a seriously misleading and, arguably, an intentional, unauthorized exploitation of our client's name, goodwill and publicity value." It should be interesting to see how this one plays out, because Bill Wyman the musician was born William George Perks and changed his name to Bill Wyman in 1964. Journalist Bill Wyman was given that name at his birth in 1961."

Comments

Re:What does he do?

[nob]

Check out nissan.com. He runs "Nissan Computer Corp."

New TLDs

[MS]

Thats what the new TLDs were meant for:

Nissan Motors should register nissan.biz, nissanmorots.com or nissan.co.jp (they are Japanese after all).

Wyman (the Rolling Stone member) should register wyman.info, wyman.name or billwyman.com...

Nobody needs seriously more than *one* domain-name. Registering serveral variations of the same name under several TLDs helps only fill the pockets of Verisign and some lawyers.

Markus

Re:Countersue!

[cweber]

em>Ah well, too bad I don't read Rolling Stone, I can't cancel my subscription in protest. ;-)

It's the band 'The Rolling Stones', not the magazine. You can cancel your subscription all you want, Bill Wyman, the musician wouldn't care.