Jan 21
17 year old faces MS lawyers…
“In what could easily be mistaken for an Onion story, Microsoft has unleashed the full fury of its lawyers on 17-year-old Canadian high-school student, Mike Rowe, demanding the handover of his Internet domain. The domain? MikeRoweSoft.com. No, seriously. Victoria-based Mike is currently studying maths and chemistry and plans to study computer science at Victoria University next year. He registered the domain in August because he thought it would be cool to have a site that sounded like the famous company to show his Web designing skills. The Beast of Redmond however reckons that the phonetic domain infringes its copyright and insists Mike hand it over or face the consequences.” (01/19/04)
Via: Rational Review
2 Comments so far
Would that be infringing on copyright or trademark? I’m no lawyer, but isn’t there a big difference? Companies always get derided when this sort of thing happens, but isn’t the law on trademarks such that if you don’t protect your rights then you lose them?
Myria
Yes but…….I strongly doubt that this kid would damage Mr Gates’ empire – anyway, I off the register Shittybank.com
Bye for now