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Originally Posted by tony286
I dont know how its even a trademark issue. It wasnt like his logo was a fish with glasses, it was just a last name . Say his name was Bill Peabody and he wanted to call his program Mr Peabody.
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The thing is, and this is pure speculation, I am pretty sure Mr. Peabody had been an inactive franchise for many years, with no new material being created since the 60's. Just in case the movie went big, they needed an established record of actively defending their trademarks and ThePornNerd was likely the easiest kid in the playground to pick on to establish or expand that history.
He could likely have defended his domain name in court but that would have taken years and tons of money, and since as I mentioned before, the url of an affiliate program is probably one of the easiest things to change, it's much easier to let them have the stupid URL and move on.