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JRR Tolkien: Return Of The Domain Name
Malfourmed writes "Reuters reports that the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien won a cybersquatting case against Alberta Hot Rods, a Canadian-based operator which registered jrrtolkien.com and linked it to its commercial celebrity Web site. The group - which has already lost domain name cases brought by actors Pierce Brosnan and Pamela Anderson, and author Michael Crichton - was found to have no legitimate rights, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) said in a ruling."
So now he'll have "one webring to rule them all --" oh forget it.
I have a relatively uncommon first-name, but one of the few people who shares it registered it as a domain name relatively early in the history of the web. If I were to become famous, I'd almost certainly be known by first-name alone, as there are only a small handful of entertainers with this name, and none of them are "stars".
So all I need to do now is become famous, and that domain is mine!
Wow. The law actually worked and wasn't evil or nothing for once. Good on them.
Unless we are so evil as to not click the ads, in which case we just /.ed not only jrrtolkien.com, but also their crummy adservers.
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www.celebrity1000.com contains nude pics of JRR Tolkien I think they are out of luck :p
Imagine if someone was renting all the land on the planet for twenty bucks for two years and porn companies rented all the usable farmland and then linked it all to one spot in Arizona with nothing on it but advertisements for porn that no matter how many sites you click through, you never find any any actual naked chicks, dammit.
Just because he has some snooty movie and a bunch of lawyers, doesn't mean he owns the domain. When Albertans think hot rodding, we think jrrtolkein.com, and no big timer geeks are ever going to change that!
As a Tolkien fan I believe that the domain name should be cast into the fiery pit at Mt. Doom, so that it may never again be used to trouble the world.
Imagine people running around in a virgin country, sticking up signs every thirty miles or so at random, saying "this is my land." Should they be able to collect on it all, if those signs are the only claim they have?
I don't know. Do they have a flag?
Hehehe, somebody should change their name to Mr/Ms Alberta Hotrods, and sue for THAT domain name (-:
That'd teach em...
Pixie
don't mess with those geekgrrls
The brewers sewed,
No no, you have it all wrong. Brewers brew... it's tailors that sew. In rare cases of sewing involving wool and people's eyes, you will find that lawyers might be involved as well.
I moderate "-1, Fool"
"Why should I change my name - he's the one that sucks!" - Michael Bolton
-- "They say that time changes things. The truth is, you have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol, adapted)
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I live in perpetual fear that someone else with my name will become hugely rich and famous, and try to take my website away from me, and that me in my geeky science-guy and poor way, will be able to do nothing to stop them. What if the next boy-band happen to have someone with my name in the band, and he starts dating Brittany, and gets in a fight with Justin, and *boom* immeasurable fame and wealth come his way. The next thing you know he Trademarks his name and I not only lose my website, but I can never write, produce, sing, or artify small blocks of cheese in my own name.
-- IANAL, BIPOOTV