Monday, December 22, 2008
Viacom / MTV dispute FMA rights to jackass.com
MTV and its parent company- Viacom, claim the site developer Future Media Architects doesn't have fair ownership rights to jackass.com. According to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,(ICANN), Viacom must prove three things to win arbitration:
1. Future Media Architects’s domain name is identical or similar to a trademark to which Viacom has rights
2. FMA doesn’t have rights or legitimate interests in the domain name
3. FMA is using the domain name in bad faith.
FMA is run byThunayan Khalid Al-Ghanim, an entreprenuer owns thousands of other domains under the online alias: "Elequa."
The elusive Al-Ghanim is a native of Kuwait. FMA is already in the midst of a trademark lawsuit with Lufthansa Airlines over lh.com. The ruling on the Lufthansa Airlines suit and the pending results of Viacom's dispute could set a precedent for cases involving trademarked names and domain ownership.
Posted By Matt O'Hern at 03:00 PM
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