If I had trademarked my www.foo.com domain, can I use the law to get www.foo.net?
Dec 4th, 2007 by Martin
Hey guys, let’s say I copyrighted and trademarked the yeah.com - Only the best links … domain, and someone a year later got the foo.net and do some shit in it to compete with my mainstream ecommerce area, can I hire some lawyers to grab the domain name to myself?
The guy’s been getting good traffic from that, so I don’t really want him to do that anymore…
Hmmm. Copyright protects the integrity of whatever it is protecting… hence, any semblance to it intended to “affect, discredit or take away the profits” from that copyrighted material or name or icon or whatever intangible right it is…then you could claim protection from the law. It all depends on how good your lawyer is in arguing that point and how much provenance you proffer to cite that indeed foo.net has malice against your foo.com.