Bob Marley’s Wailers, also known as “The Wailers”, recently won a cybersquatting and trademark infringement lawsuit brought by another Wailers musical group, who started using the band name ten years before Bob Marley named his group in 1969. In 1998, the Bob Marley Wailers registered www.wailers.com and in order for the plaintiffs to win their case, they would have had to prove that Bob Marley’s Wailers registered wailers.com in bad faith. Since no evidence of bad faith was introduced by plaintiffs the case was dismissed.
Ormsby v. Barrett, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20 (United States District Court for the Western District Court for the Western District of Washington) Read the full story here.
Source: Traverse Legal Post – January 4th, 2008
