WIPO: The Simpsons Movie Domain Name

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The domain TheSimpsonsMovie.com, which had been registered by Keith Malley, must be given to Twentieth Century Fox, the owner of the Simpsons trademark. Malley had offered the domain to Twentieth Century Fox for $50,000, but the company declined and filed a WIPO complain instead, and they won.

The favorable ruling was primarily based on the fact that registering the Simpsons Movie Web site amounted to “bad faith registration and use” of the address - a practice known as “cybersquatting”.
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Initially the site in question was linking to another “off-colour and in some cases sexually-explicit” web site involving characters from the Simpsons television series.

(via DomainNews.com)

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