Abercrombie & Fitch Loses Domain Name Suit

An anonymous reader writes "Abercrombie & Fitch has lost a case against the owner of a parody web site, Aberzombie.com, who sells t-shirts."

Comments

To late for the Walmartsucks guy

[BoomerSooner]

Unbelieveable how inconsistant our laws are. Maybe they should have to re-pass every law or it expires. For example, those stupid ass inter-racial laws in the south, or consentual sodomy (oral-sex), or murder.

Obviously the good ones would be passed again and the stupid ass 1800's laws would expire and no longer be the grounds for police/legal harassment.

Re:parody?

[macdaddy357]

In the United States, courts usually rule that parody is a form of free speech. That hasn't stopped big companies from bringing slapp suits, and fighting them is very expensive. The little guy will usually back down. Larry Flint could afford to fight Jerry Falwell because he is rich, and he had to go all the way to the Supreme Court to win. A clearer law could be made to prevent these slapp suits by clearly stating that parody is free speech, not copyright or trademark infringement, but the same corporations that bring slapp suits also bribe -er, ah- donate to our lawmakers.