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Bill Cosby wins rights to Fat Albert name in cyberspace
houston chronicle ^
| 9-12-05
| Associated Press
Posted on 09/12/2005 3:30:35 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
GENEVA — A U.N. panel has awarded Bill Cosby an Internet domain name based on the Fat Albert character he created in the 1960s.
Arbitrators for the World Intellectual Property Organization ordered Monday the transfer of fatalbert.org to Cosby, who had complained it was being used in bad faith to divert visitors to a commercial search engine and a Web site selling sexually explicit products.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: albert; cosby; fat; fatalbert; heyheyhey; porn
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I'm not going there. and no, no pics.
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posted on
09/12/2005 3:30:38 PM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
To: Rakkasan1
2
posted on
09/12/2005 3:32:10 PM PDT
by
jw777
To: Rakkasan1
Score one for the good guys.
Me, I'm sick to death of finding domain names sucked up by squatters who do nothing but pimp their porn sites or seek to extort legitimate users from putting a good domain name to good use.
The squatters are just as bad as spammers.
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posted on
09/12/2005 3:32:28 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: Rakkasan1
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posted on
09/12/2005 3:32:38 PM PDT
by
quark
To: Rakkasan1
hey hey hey! they took the domain away!
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posted on
09/12/2005 3:32:58 PM PDT
by
steveo
(Member: Fathers Against Rude Television)
To: Rakkasan1
That's legitimate.
If the guy registered it because it was his lifelong nickname and then create a site that was unrelated to cosby's show and characters, the cosby wouldn't have much of a leg to stand on.
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posted on
09/12/2005 3:33:12 PM PDT
by
z3n
To: Rakkasan1
It's too late for Fatal Bert.
7
posted on
09/12/2005 3:33:19 PM PDT
by
GSWarrior
To: Rakkasan1
Not to be confused with "Big Albert" aka Albertus Magnus.
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posted on
09/12/2005 3:33:31 PM PDT
by
Ostlandr
(moonflower sunsword)
To: Rakkasan1
Bill Cosby wins rights to Fat Albert name in cyberspace
Well, well. Isn't that special.
But it's still MY Internet!
9
posted on
09/12/2005 3:34:57 PM PDT
by
GaltMeister
(“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”)
To: Prime Choice
I seriously think that ICANN needs to crack down on squatters. If you register a domain, you have to put up a site within one year or lose the domain. There are people who register thousands of domain for the sole purpose of not using them, but holding them for ransom.
10
posted on
09/12/2005 3:35:10 PM PDT
by
z3n
To: GaltMeister
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posted on
09/12/2005 3:35:40 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
To: Rakkasan1
When finally reached for comment,
The real Fat Albert, pictured here,
was still muttering something under his breath
about loosing his eyebrows.
"I welcome the fatalbert.org decision"
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posted on
09/12/2005 3:39:23 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
To: z3n
ICANN doesn't give a good rip about these very practical matters. Instead, they're pondering forcing everyone who owns a .ORG and .NET domain to give them up; neverminding that nearly all such domains were necessitated because the .COM equivalents were sucked up by squatters, phishers and scammers.
ICANN's answer to the problem was creating the .BIZ and .INFO domains; both of which are now almost totally saturated with spammers and scammers now.
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posted on
09/12/2005 3:39:46 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: Rakkasan1
Hey-ba man-ba, the un-ba is getin-ba serious-ba...
Old fat Albert reruns are about all those pygmies should be allowed to toy with.
In my opion-ba.
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posted on
09/12/2005 3:40:54 PM PDT
by
mmercier
To: Rakkasan1
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posted on
09/12/2005 3:41:06 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
To: Rakkasan1
A U.N. panel...
How does this fall under U.N. domain?
16
posted on
09/12/2005 3:47:23 PM PDT
by
The Unknown Nobody
(Have you had the opportunity to fight for your freedom or has someone fought for it for you?)
To: ChadGore
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posted on
09/12/2005 3:48:35 PM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
(DON'T BICKER, DRINK LIQUOR-DON'T THINK, JUST DRINK.)
To: The Unknown Nobody
as any lib. EVERYTHING is their domain. it's part of the Global Test.
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posted on
09/12/2005 3:49:22 PM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
(DON'T BICKER, DRINK LIQUOR-DON'T THINK, JUST DRINK.)
To: quark
Algore can still take
Albertus Saginatus.
(The "fatted calf" of Lk 15.23 is vitulus saginatus in the Latin text.)
To: ChadGore
The question is looser than what?
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