Sunday, 11 September 2011

Is Chris Bosh a “Cyber-hero” or “Cybersquatter”?

NBA,star Chris bosh a popular year power forward player recently won an intellectual property dispute over a website name,the court allowing him to own the site chrisbosh.com
the story started from when he wonder why someone else had a right to Chirsbosh.com.he went to the court to reclaim his online identity,and in the process liberated the internet domain names of 800 other athletes, celebrities.A federal judge in California has order a cyber squatter to surrender chisbosh.com to Bosh,and settled a lawsuit filed,Judge of District Court ordered Luis Zavala and his company to release some 800 illigally registered domain names to Bosh.“We are notifying the world that anyone whose name is on this list that has a legitimate right to the domain name, Chris will transfer it to them for free,” said Brian Heidelberg er, one of three lawyers who represented Bosh.“Everyone has to be protected against this stuff,” Bosh said before the Raptors’ preseason game against the Boston Celtics in Hartford, Conn.
According to the lawsuit, Zevala registered the Web addresses in order to sell them to those whose names he appropriated,in violation of federal law.
when Bosh's lawyers contacted  Zevala in July 2008,he sent back a terse email reply: “I have no intentions of handing over my domain. I am not in the business of giving domains away.”
Zavala did not respond to an e-mail message seeking comment. The court ordered Zavala to pay $120,000 in damages earlier this year, but Bosh’s lawyers have been unable to locate him.

















2 comments:

  1. it is cybersquatting. trademark and domain name infringing.other wise there is a act which protect person his or her name is used as a domain name .under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act or the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Procedure

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