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On Sunday 17 October 2004 10:20, Peter Lloyd-Jones wrote:
Folllowing a very good write up in the American Model Railway Press of the product a commercial software developer who makes model railway software, has now copyrighted (or something) the domain name DecoderPro.com (and others from the software suite).
Trademark perhaps? Generally this would be taken as passing off, but it may be less obvious if there is no commercial activity going on. A defence of it would likely fail, and possibly the domain name could be recovered - certainly if it appeared that someone who has nothing to do with the project was passing themselves off as the owner of the software and proposing to sell it, a good case could surely be made to the registrar. -- Adrian Midgley Open Source software is better GP, Exeter http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.