If anyone has any experience with domain names of copyrighted/trademarked words, please give me all the advice you can. I really want to be on the up-and-up about this one. A while back I purchased two domains (commandomovie.com and commandomovie.net) with the sincere intention to build an "80s Commando movie tribute" page, just a blog for fun... my father recently passed away, and he absolutely LOVED that movie, so I just thought it might be a fun project if i could ever get around to it. The movie from the 80's was so long ago, I really didn't think much of it. But my wife was glancing through IMDB yesterday and noticed that there is a new remake Commando movie coming out in 2011, still in production. I actually got pretty worried about the domains. Long story short: I have the domains, I'm not hiding it, and I really want to get these into the hands of the people who own the copyright/trademark (if there are any) as soon as possible and at no cost to them. I sincerely don't want to make it look like I was trying to profit from someone else's work, and I can show that I haven't monetized the parking pages or anything like that. Would anyone know where to begin or know how to find copyright/trademark owners and get a hold of them? Any advice would be welcomed with open arms! Thanks
The worst you can get is a cease-and-desist, in which case you have X days to take the site down with no penalty.
Sorry for the off-topic, but does this also apply for websites that contain content without copyright, let's say an entire book in digital format, without permission?
Thanks for the quick response, Marathon... I really appreciate it. That eases my mind a ton, so I'll just put that project on my list and build the site whenever I get to it Thanks again, man Jason ps: PhillipCJ, that's a really good question. I surely don't have the answer off the top of my head, but I'll do a little digging and see if I can get some info for you. Or, there are a million more qualified and intelligent peeps in this forum than me, so hopefully someone answers before I get a chance to.
Phillip - In most cases yes, but if they believe you are willfully infringing for your own benefit they could just give you a court summons.