I would like get a domain that another very popular website is using, and appears to be very successful....ie: lets say the other party is using: FootBallForum.com and I would like to buy and setup: FootBallForum.net I do not see any copyright violations with this as the other party does not own the terms (football)(forum) but footballforum.com is very popular...(example only) awkward for sure, as I would be no doubt competing with footballforum.com - even though I probably would never catch up to their level...and then there's the thought of people on footballforum.com coming over to harrass me on footballforum.net because I am using the same name on just a different extension. What do you guys think?
Errm...that's trademark, not copyright, you're referring to here. And that's assuming that other party indeed does have one for the actual terms in question.
sorry..missed the fact that you said copyright. Yes trademark. It is very generic. The way things are going in copyright land next thing will be Tweets and domain names.... English High Court just allowed copyright protection for short banal news headlines as original literary works overturning hundreds of years of common law.
You are correct. seeing that it is a domain, I do not see any trademark issues seeing this person was not the first to invent the generic terms used in his domain. Since I am not taking content from his site, then there would be no copyright involved. I think I will pass on it...the person selling is selling it for $1900.00 but since there is already a very popular dot.com, I would just feel awkward using dot.net
I don't think that you are actually violating anything. I mean if the other party really is serious about their trademarks then they must have bought all the extensions available of the same domain name.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/26/technology/teachbook/index.htm Read that and you may change your mind if you want to copy someone.
Are you capable of defensively registering any and all variations of your domain/s to stop anyone from, say, exploiting yours if ever? If you don't feel the need to do so, then how about others as well?
Facebook sues start-up for using 'book' in name ridiculous OMG, dont used the word "book" in anything or you might be sued by facebook If you use the word "BAY" in anything, you maybe sued by eBay.... Facebook is immoral....just watch the Social Network....If I was facebook, I would have never released such movie that gave such horrible portrayal of my company... most people probably never even know about the facebook story until they seen the movie... Facebook is evil!
Just in the context of social networks. That's what they're preventing Teachbook from doing. You're somewhat in good company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_social_network
If you just sat on it they would possibly be able to force you to sell it but as long as you used it and didn't lead anyone to believe you were the same site of violate any of their copyright you should be fine but as others have said why invest when you will be competing so directly as they have the .com you are more likely to lose traffic to them than the other way round.