MySpace Cease and Desist Notices

Why would they do that? They could just for any other domains like hisspace, herspace, etc. lol

 

You are allowed to have any subdomain or folder or title tag you choose. Nobody has a case against you in court just for using their company name as a subdomain/folder or title as long as freedom of speech is still there. Using a trademark in a domain is a different issue as a domain usually representing a company name which in any case cant contain someone elses trademark.

 

Exactly. If that was the case, they would be sending C&D letters to people who used their TM in speech!

 

Cease and Desist notices from MySpace have been issued to several domains using the MySpace trademark name

From SearchEngineJournal:
"The MySpace legal team has sent out Cease & Desist letters to the owners of domain names and web sites which use the MySpace name. Sites such as MySpaceCity.com, MySpaceAdds.com, and MySpaceSupport.com have received such letters which are threatening legal action against those sites for use of the MySpace brand in the domain name."

This is from Domains Magazine (they attribute the source as SearchEngineJournal);

Ouch! MySpace legal team isn't exactly short of funds or legal muscle.

It's interesting that two sites mentioned in the above cease and desist have apparently still to cease or desist and the Whois still gives the original owner, suggesting of course that a single-digit is being directed towards MySpace's C&D notice. I wonder how that will play out?

 

Now ... what does the MySpace legal team propose they do to keep their members from hotlinking images and other stuff off sites and onto MySpace?

I've sent countless emails to them asking they push a policy forbading their members from hotlinking off sites without permission ... nay a reply.

 

I doubt they give a stuff, wrmineo. What do they care?

 

hmm...class action possibly against myspace?

 

Wow, very good points.

I do think that people should have been smart enough to not register myspace domain names in the first place though.

 

How can you sue MySpace for the actions of their users? You can't, at least not with big bucks and even then you'll lose. Much like the attempts of the Music industry suing the likes of P2P sites for copywrite infringement.

As a webmaster, you can easily prevent hotlinking or if you don't want to do that then you can easily change the image location if you get a few out of hand.

 

Aren't they then a "service provider", which means you can send a DMCA complaint, and they have to act? Although hotlinking probably isn't direct copyright infringement.

 

It seems that MySpaceAdds.com has already folded. It resolves to MySpace and the whois shows MySpace as the registered owner.

 

Every site with myspace in the domain will be down soon... you are not only fighting Myspace, but also Fox.

Those crummy threads of sites for sale here with myspace in them should be locked and not allowed any more.

 

I wouldn't be so sure. If there is a legitimate class action, the class action attorneys have the resources to go toe to toe with Fox. That Fox is big, and rich, and has lots and lots of money to pay out in damages, is not a defect from the point of view of a good class action attorney.

Some of the P2P sites did get shut down because they were facilitating other people's copyright infringements.

I don't know enough about what the MySpace users are linking to, or who the injured parties woudl be, to have an opinion about whether there is a good suit here, but if there is having someone major like Fox as a defendant would be a good thing. A plaintiff's attorney would rather have a pretty good suit against someone with lots and lots of money than an absolutely airtight suit against someone with no money.

 

I have a myspaceXXXXXXX.com domain registered before the year 2000, will they have have legal rights to take it from me? Or can I freely use it?

This is even before they had even thought of myspace community, give me your inputs on this

Thanks

 

Verizon was even dirtier than MySpace. A few years back they started threatening all varations of Verizon in the domain name....some included:

verizonsucks.com, verizonsuckdonkeyballs.com, verizoneatsboogers.com.

There was a huge flame war going on over at 2600 magazine. Really interesting how the reaction was.

 

Do anyone have any good answer to my question above? It`s kinda important and would really appreciate to get quick answers...

 

Ok, this isn't true but what if my name was Joe Myspace? Would I be entitled to use joemyspace.com or would they have they legal right to take that from me?

 

Yeah, this is a tough one. Not too long ago, and this btw has nothing to do with Domain names, Carnegie Mellon University had to stop using CMU because Central Michigan University was complaining.

Since Central Michigan has been around longer, they get to use the abbreviation of CMU.