Armani Vs Armani
 

- sorry for the quick translation -

A small Italian craftsman, Luca Armani, have observed a hunger strike for Wednesday to denounce a decision of court obliging it to give up his Internet site "armani.it" and to pay an enormous fine with the profit of the multinational of the designer Giorgio Armani.

"My name is Armani, Luca first name. It is not me which affirms it, but a document emitted by the Italian State ", writes it in a petition on its site. And it has announced being in hunger strike "for Wednesday" to denounce the decision of the Court of Bergamo of which waited in Italian and English his published on his site.

The war of Armani started in 1997, at the beginning of Internet in Italy, when Luca Armani, 40 years, manufacturing stamps of Bergamo, launched the site "armani.it" to make the promotion of its products. The famous designer did not launch out yet on the Net at the time. Giorgio Armani will react on October 22, 1998 and will carry the business in front of Italian justice. The stake is significant, because the multinational Giorgio Armani already lost the site "armani.com", taken by a graphic designer of Vancouver to Canada, and the site "armani.org" of which titular is to it a homonym Frenchwoman.

The company Giorgio Armani is prevailed in front of Italian justice to be "a company leader of the sector of the mode and clothing (...) owner of the Armani mark, universally recognized and celebrates" and deplored that "the site armani.it lends to confusion". The court of Bergamo gave him reason on 19 March 2003 and waited its decision has been just communicated to the parts. The court condemned Luca Armani for counterfeit, prohibited to him to use its name on the Internet and condemned to pour with the multinational Giorgio Armani of the fines for an amount of several hundreds of thousands of euros.

"I want to specify that I am not with research of compassion, but that I fight because I believe to have been marked wrongfully of an offence which I never made", underlines Luca Armani in his petition. "I do not ask much. I only wish to receive one moral and possibly economic support to hold until a decision of the Supreme court of appeal in manner has to obtain a judgement unquestionable and final ", it specifies.

in english :
http://www.petitiononline.com/250320...ion-sign.html?

in italian :
http://www.armani.it/

Another good example of the *golden rule*


The man that has the gold...makes the rules:thumbsup

I like Giorgio... I want him to have the domain name!

First in First served forever

if Georgio wants the domain, he has to negociate with the owner, he was not the first to buy this domain...

bump :helpme