Bill Cosby Wins Fight Over Domain Name
An AP newswire article, via ABC News, reports that:
Comedian Bill Cosby won control of an Internet domain name including the name of the Fat Albert cartoon he created in the 1960s, under a ruling issued Monday by a United Nations panel.
Arbitrators for the World Intellectual Property Organization ordered the transfer of the domain name "fatalbert.org" to the American actor, who had complained that it infringed his trademark rights and was being used in bad faith to divert Internet traffic to a commercial search engine and a Web site selling sexually explicit products.
The ruling upheld Cosby's complaint against the individual that registered the name Sterling Davenport, of Loretto, Tennessee.
Cosby created the Fat Albert cartoon character of the late 1960s as part of his standup comedy routine about his childhood in Philadelphia. The children's series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids first appeared on the U.S. television network CBS in 1972 and a Fat Albert movie was released last year.
Arbitrator John Kidd noted he had no response from Davenport, but said that "the respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the domain name."
posted by Fergie @ 9/12/2005 07:47:00 AM
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