Celebrity Web Squatting 101
How do celebrities, executives and politicians wind up with their names used as Web addresses and on Web sites without their consent? How do they get out of that sticky situation? The D.C. Bar Association tackled that topic on Thursday at a lunchtime briefing.
Neil Brown, a prominent lawyer and former member of the Australian House of Representatives, keynoted the event. He was expected to explain how the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, which took effect in 1999, is used to address the problem.
Brown, who works with the World Intellectual Property Organization, discussed what must be proved by celebrities and others to win a domain name feud. WIPO statistics show the number of complaints filed against cyber-squatters under the UDRP hit a record high in 2007 with 1,824 filings. In 2008, there have already been 108 complaints.
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