Method Of Avoiding CopyRighted Names.

[freeuploadedfiles]

There are names like Microsoft/ Google/ Yahoo and all other names which are trade-marked. If you want to buy a domains name with those trade-marked names you can not win those names in lawsuit.

But is the following method effective ?

Say, my name is "Johny Microsoft", so I have a natural right to register any domain with my surname = Microsoft. So if I register MicrosoftDomainName.com can Microsoft win a lawsuit for using their trade-marked "Microsoft" name ? Because my surname is "Microsoft", so do I have a natural right to register MicrosoftDomainName.com without falling in the copy-right/ trade-mark laws ?

Is that correct ?

 

[rusty123]

I'd say microsoft would have a strong case to win even if your last name was microsoft as they own the trademark. Here is an interesting case on the subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe_(student)