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Apple hegemony...
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http://www.macnn.com/news/27182
Apple in battle over iTunes.co.uk domain name
Monday, December 6, 2004 @ 1:30pm
Apple is fighting for the rights to iTunes.co.uk domain name, accussing the owner of being a cybersquatter and demanding that the domain be returned to Apple by the UK registry Nominet, according to an article in The Register: "the owner happens to be one Benjamin Cohen, the "dotcom millionaire" of lore, whose father is a solicitor, and Apple doesn't have a leg to stand on. As a press release put out by Cohen makes clear, he registered the domain "itunes.co.uk" on 7 November 2000, and two days later made use of it by forwarding it to a music search engine service at his CyberBritain site. Apple, on the other hand, only had trademark for "iTunes" published in the Trade Marks Journal on 6 December 2000. It was granted a limited trademark that did not cover music products on 23 March 2001, and eventually went live with its iTunes offering in June this year - four years after Ben Cohen first registered iTunes.co.uk. Cohen claims he had no idea that Apple was planning to build an iTunes service, and that he has been using it legitimately all that time."
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Blah! Too bad Apple. He registered the name before iTunes was ever known to the public. You lost, he won. It's his domain. You'll have to buy it from him.
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I agree, though the he does use an iPod mini as his main graphic...
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wanna bet this'll be in litigation for the next five years... and if apple is so inclined, they can sue him for use of their graphic... ooh, DRAMA
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Don't try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
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He doesn't uses that domain for anything but forwarding. I hate that.
Some of us out there are trying to get domain names we actually use, and they're already registered to dweebs who don't even use em.
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Cybersquatters are the worst.
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chown -R us:us yourbase
Dissent is not un-American.
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I thought that iTunes (the app, not iTMS) was around before Nov 2000, but it looks like it was anounced in Jan 2001, so I guess Cohen is right.
Apple will probably have to pay him a lot out-of-court, pay a lot to win in court, or just give up.
(the iPod mini graphic is because the prize for that contest is an iPod mini.)
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hey, these things happen.
wouldn't mind getting the pay day he's looking at...hmmm iphoto.co.uk?
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