[Random-bits] Material Girl Kicks Cybersquatter Off Madonna.com

[James Love]

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20001016/wr/madonna_suit_dc_1.html


Monday October 16 12:27 PM ET
Material Girl Kicks Cybersquatter Off Madonna.com 

By Elif Kaban

GENEVA (Reuters) - Pop superstar Madonna has won her case at an
international panel to evict a New York cybersquatter from the Internet
address madonna.com which was initially a porn site, U.N. arbitrators
said on Monday.

The American singer, whose famous hits include ``Like a Virgin'' and
``Material Girl'', filed the complaint in July at the Geneva-based World
Intellectual Property Organization against businessman Dan Parisi who
was first to register the Internet address.

A three-member panel at WIPO, the United Nations copyright and
intellectual property agency which runs an arbitration system that
evicts cybersquatters, ordered Parisi to transfer the site to Madonna.

The panel said Parisi, who is a Web site developer, had no trademark
right to the name Madonna and failed to prove legitimate interest in the
Internet domain name which he had registered in bad faith.

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