James Brown estate doesn’t “feel good” after domain dispute
Godfather of Soul’s domain name can stay with management company.
The estate of James Brown has lost a domain arbitration case for the domain name JamesBrown.com.
The domain is owned by LAC Management, Inc., which manages “RJ The James Brown Band”. LAC argued that James Brown gave at least his tacit consent for it to register the domain name. In its pleadings, the estate even admitted that Brown may have consented to the domain registration while he was alive.
The estate made a number of legal arguments that aren’t typically considered by a UDRP panel and the panel decided to ignore them.
That makes sense. Even if the estate does have a legal argument to get this domain name, it’s certainly too complex to be handled by the UDRP mechanism.
LAC Management was represented by Ari Goldberger of ESQwire.com.
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