Film hero Cruise defeats cyber-pirate, offscreen http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060724/wr_nm/leisure_cruise_dc_4
GENEVA (Reuters) - Tom Cruise on Monday won an off-screen combat -- against a cyber-pirate who was using his name for advertising. The U..N. intellectual property agency WIPO said an Internet dispute body it runs had ruled for Cruise -- who in recent roles has battled Martian invaders and ancient Japanese warlords -- in a cyber-squatting case. The pirate, identified only as Network Operations Center/Alberta Hot Rods, was ordered to hand over the Internet domain name tomcruise.com to the actor, WIPO said. The judge in the case, conducted on-line, said the pirate outfit had been using the site to divert Cruise fans to another selling goods and services with no link to the actor. The Hollywood hero was the latest in a series of celebrities who have won cases against the U.S.-based Network Operations Center for misuse of their names. The others included Canadian singer Celine Dion, stage and screen actor-director Kevin Spacey, and popular fiction writers Michael Crichton and Jeffrey Archer. Reply with a "Thank you" if you liked this post. _____________________________ MEDIANEWS mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
