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To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (22284)	8/7/2000 2:49:48 PM
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(COMTEX) B: Jimi Hendrix Kin Win Domain Name B: Jimi Hendrix Kin Win Domain Name GENEVA, Aug 07, 2000 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- The family of late guitar legend Jimi Hendrix has won a battle in cyberspace after a U.N. arbitrator awarded it the rights to the Internet domain name jimihendrix.com. The ruling in favor of the family was among a number the U.N. World Intellectual Property Organization released Monday under a procedure to stop "cybersquatting" - the registering of an address using famous trademarks by someone hoping to resell the site to the company with rights to it. Experience Hendrix took its case against Denny Hammerton of Minneola, Fla., to the organization, which ruled that Hammerton should hand over the Web address. Experience Hendrix, based in Tukwila, Washington, was formed in 1995 and, according to the ruling, owns and administers "substantially all rights relating to Jimi Hendrix, including rights in his music, name, image and recordings." Its president is the late musician's half-sister Janie L. Hendrix and it operates an official Web site at www.jimi-hendrix.com. Hendrix died in London in 1970. Hammerton, whose site was registered in the name of The Jimi Hendrix Fan Club, said he had registered the domain name before it registered its trademarks. But arbitrator Marylee Jenkins ruled that Hammerton was well aware of the trademark. Experience Hendrix said Hammerton had previously offered to sell names including elvispresley.net, jethrotull.com, lindamccartney.com, mickjagger.com and paulmccartney.com. It submitted copies of Web pages from a resale site where the name jimihendrix.com was being offered for sale for $1 million. Jenkins said Hammerton was not operating the site as a fan club address or in connection with any legitimate offer of goods or services. She rejected his contention that the proceedings were a violation of human rights and free speech and "theft under the American Constitution." Meanwhile, another arbitrator handed several major companies control of Internet domain names that were registered following merger announcements. TimeWarner and EMI, which in January announced plans to merge their music operations into a joint venture named Warner EMI Music, won the domain names emiwarnermusic.com, emiwarner.org, emiwarner.net, warneremi.net and warneremi.org. Drug maker Pharmacia and Upjohn, which merged earlier this year with agricultural and pharmaceutical company Monsanto Co., won the transfer of the names monsantopharmacia.com and monsantopharmacia.net from Monsantopharmacia.com Inc., based in Seoul, South Korea. In another post-merger case, Deutsche Bank won the name deutsche-bankerstrust.com from E Business International of Miami Beach, Florida. E Business didn't reply to the complaint from Deutsche Bank, which last year bought New York-based Bankers Trust. The Web site had not been used. Also Monday, Japan's Toshiba Corp. won the name toshibastore.com from Distribution Purchasing & Logistics Corp., which gave an address in Mahwah, N.J. Anyone can register an address for about $100. Before the low-cost U.N. procedure was introduced last year, a corporation might have had to spend thousands of dollars to buy the rights to the address, or hundreds of thousands of dollars in litigation to stop its use. --- On the Net: arbiter.wipo.int Warner/EMI ruling: arbiter.wipo.int Pharmacia ruling: arbiter.wipo.int Deutsche Bank ruling: arbiter.wipo.int Toshiba ruling: arbiter.wipo.int Copyright 2000 Associated Press, All rights reserved -0- APO Priority=r APO Category=1700 KEYWORD: GENEVA SUBJECT CODE: 1700 * end of story *