: Copyright infringement for domain based on common keywords Suppose an adult website adult.com has a copyrighted the trademark Adult™. Can anyone register adult.ooo or adult.xyz or registering
Suppose an adult website adult.com has a copyrighted the trademark Adult™. Can anyone register adult.ooo or adult.xyz or registering the domain name adult with any extension would be an infringement of the trade mark of the registered user.
Simply I mean to ask does registering one domain with .com extension and copyrighting it gives the owner copyright over all the extensions?
Same question for non-regular keyword domains like facebook.com with facebook.ooo etc.
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In broad strokes:
You can't copyright a trademark:
Copyright applies to creative works. You get copyright by creating.
Trademarks have to be registered.
"Adult" is (probably) too generic a term to be trademarkable.
Registering a domain name is not the same as registering a trademark.
Domain name registration is handled on a first come first served basis but can be be disputed. Ownership of trademarks and evidence that a domain name was registered in bad faith (e.g. to impersonate another site) are factors that are taken into account.
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