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is this a joke or coming back???

Yes he owns the website and the domain. He could get into trouble with CBS if he tried to present the website content as representative of what CBS thinks conflicts with its business. Just as the example I gave of the website that had Microsoft in the title. While the owner was only making a site to help windows owners, it conflicted with Microsoft and delineated the line of who he was and what Microsoft represented and he saw the domain taken from him. Basically the folks who arbitrate and decide who has the right to a website domain and intellectual rights when the challenge is made look at three conditions:

1, the domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the Complainant has rights; and

2. the respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name; and

3. the domain name was registered and is being used in bad faith.

So in the case of the guy who has 1027wnew, if he used it in bad faith to what CBS does, as in a radio broadcast, or in a way that confused people to what CBS' trademark represents, he could loose the domain.

So look at what we have in the case of this website noted in this thread:

1. 1027wnew is not owned in any way as a trademark.

2. Since no one owns a trademark for 1027WNEW there is no conflict of interest

3. He does use a logo that is representative of CBS and what their brand represents.

Since he only has only one out of three, he has no fear.

BUT... I just looked and see that he hedged his bets and took down the WNEW logo and now only links to his myspace page. Guess he has been reading.

Case closed.

You may have registered a dozen websites but I have been involved with a dozen or so cases of litigation over web domains that my group purchased early on thinking we could buy famous names, but the organizations I have been involved with lost the domains due to the factors above.
 
Sorry, Walt, but there is no such thing as a "1027 WNEW-FM." Not on air, not anywhere. It's ok to note that.

And it's ok to disagree. After well over a year, if CBS were to really give a damn, and found "harm" ... don't you think they have followed through by now?

As for "taking down" the web page marked with the URL, I have no idea, but, I'll give you that. It was taken down. I'm sure plastering the guy's registration on the internet didn't help. Fact is, he still owns the URL.

Good posts.
 
Foe Paw said:
Hey, I think I just found another one! :

WHOIS information for: bluesky-web.com:
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Oh I get it. you are saying that there are other blueskys. Yes there are. But there is no trademark registered on the name bluesky media nor on what the business does. When you register a corporation there is a master book with names. You can not call your corporate name the same name as another company in your state, and you have to weigh the use of the same registered names in other states and see if there might be a conflict of interest depending on your intended reach. A friend of mine started a company in NY called digital domain. He is one of the most respected engineers in the industry. Another company in another state started a similar style business and used the same name. Unfortunately he unsuccessfully sued them to stop using the name. But there are others that have.
 
["Sorry, Walt, but there is no such thing as a "1027 WNEW-FM." Not on air, not anywhere. It's ok to note that.
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I know that. I never said there was. I said if there was a trademark he would have a problem. The problem with what he ended up doing was ONLY that he used a logo that CBS used. That logo and its design is intellectual property of CBS. He got smart and took the logo off his site.
 
Just to clarify, the copyright I was referring to was the logo which is undoubtedly still owned by CBS. And no, I really don't care about that.
 
oaktree said:
Sorry, Walt, but there is no such thing as a "1027 WNEW-FM." Not on air, not anywhere. It's ok to note that.
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Actually that doesn't matter. It doesn't need to be on the air. They could've trademarked "9999.3 WNEW" if they wished to. Walt's been essentially dead on through all of this.
 
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