Podcaster Loses Rights to "thesimpsonsmovie.com" Domain

A U.S. podcaster lost the right to operate a Web site using the name of "The Simpsons Movie" to attract fans of the cartoon series to sites related to his own Internet output. An arbitrator for the United Nations' patent agency, WIPO, ruled that New York-based Keith Malley must cede control of the "thesimpsonsmovie.com" site to Twentieth Century Fox, the News Corp. unit which owns the Simpsons trademark.

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