GENEVA - Movie director Spike Lee has won his cybersquatting case against a Philippines-based operator who misused the domain name, spikelee.com, to redirect surfers to a pornographic Web site, arbitrators ruled Friday.
Lee filed the complaint against Mercedita Kyamko of the Philippines who registered the domain name in 1999, the World Intellectual Property Organization said.
It forwards users to a pornographic Web site located at clubhongkong.com, and was registered in "bad faith," according to Canadian lawyer Edward Chiasson, the neutral arbitrator named by WIPO to rule on the dispute.
Lee joins other entertainers, including Madonna , Celine Dion and Eminem who have won cases at the Geneva-based U.N. agency. The domain name is automatically transferred within 10 days unless the loser launches a court case challenging the decision.
