07-26-2007, 08:44 AM
Quote:A US podcaster has lost the right to operate a website using the name of The Simpsons Movie to attract fans of the cartoon series to sites related to his own internet output.
An arbitrator for the United Nations' patent agency, WIPO, ruled that New York-based Keith Malley must cede control of the "thesimpsonsmovie.com" site to Twentieth Century Fox, the News Corp unit which owns the Simpsons trademark...
The World Intellectual Property Organisation ruling found that Malley had registered the domain name to divert business to linked sites promoting and selling merchandise associated with the popular "Keith and the Girl" podcast he produces...
full article: http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/cybersqua...47665.html