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Originally posted by heymatty
BH,
Its not really copyright its trademark.
For example home depot. They don't own the words home or depot that would be ridculous. But the two words in combination are trademarked. So pretty much any use of those 2 words in a commercial sense is going to be infringing on their trademark and you are going to be shut down.
springbreak-girls-gone-wild is fairly clearly trying to capitalise on the established brand, and in basic terms you are fucked.
Unless they don't have its trademarked properly in isreal in which case its gonna be very messy. I don't really know a great deal about the case law regarding US trademarks being recovered from domain squatters in other countries. I think I recall some special laws being put in place.
matty
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it sounds fair regarding to girlsgonewild.ru/net/cx or what ever
but springbreak-girls-gone-wild.com isn't the same...
if you register micro-soft-ware.com it shouldn't be a violiation of the microsoft trade mark...