New United States law makes it a felony to counterfeit and traffic in mis-spelled registered trademark names
A new United States law makes it a felony to counterfeit and traffic in mis-spelled registered trademark names/words as "keyword" identifiers (i.e., to license or charge fees for the use another's registered Trademark) famous trademark or common law trademark to "lure" the public to one's site. (See trademark case: Playboy vs. Playboy.net , c. 1999, 9th Cir Ct Appeals).
The same applies to companies registering a domain name to another that does not belong to the domain registrar or the end user (the registrar company is an illegal trademark LICENSOR, the end trademark user LICENSEE). Such constitutes illegal use of a famous trademark such as Frederic RemingtonĀ®, Rolex, Playboy, or Remington in illegally registered domains; www. frederic remington.org, frederic remington.net, or frederic remington.com, or the same for Rolex.com, rolex,.net, Rolex.org, Rolex.uk, Rolex.biz, or Remington.com, Remington.net, Remington.org, Remington.uk, Remington.biz, or Playboy.com, Playboy.net, Playboy.org, Playboy.uk, Playboy.biz, etc. Misspellings of registered domain names that are registered trademarks is a felony as well such as Frederick Remington, in this case the illegal user spells the trademark with a "k" on the end of Frederick remington, merely mis-spelling the famous Trademark Frederick Remington does not constitute non-felony activity, it still violates the laws of the United States.


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