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Old 07-26-2007, 05:53 PM   #35 (permalink)
orangemachine
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I don't know. I still think his best defense would be to play the 'white house' angle.

'Simpsons' or 'The Simpsons' is generic enough that it could constitute the umbrella of generality.

Fortunately, there is precedence... opening up my chance of Keith making fun of me on the next show....
(BTW, I'm 5'9 195 LBs, single-hetero, web designer from Niagara Falls Ontario har-har-har)
He could argue that the domain name is generic enough that he has every right to use it.

For example..... I mention 'white house' because www.whitehouse.com use to belong to a porn site. The actual white house was in an out rage because 'white house' was a generic enough term that they couldn't sue... or tried and failed.
an article.

Now, I know in the past.. madonna had the same problem.. but she won her case (I think). I don't know about the laws now... but before the 'generic' domain names were very hard won in court cases.
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