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Narnia domain name dispute

By Johanna Gibson, David Pearce, Jeremy Phillips and Ilanah Simon.

According to a report from Reuters (and noted in numerous other places including here, here and here), a Scottish couple is facing the wrath of the estate of CS Lewis, author of the Narnia series of books, for acquiring the domain name narnia.mobi. The domain name was apparently acquired so that the couple's son, who is a great fan of the books, could use it for his email address.

The couple now have less than a week to respond to the 128 page complaint, filed at the domain name dispute resolution service run by WIPO, after which a decision will be made on whether the domain should be transferred. They are quoted as saying, "We don't have the money to hire intellectual property lawyers, so we're saying 'help.' One thing for sure is that our response won't be 128 pages long, it will be more like 10 pages -- we're looking at quality rather than quantity".

The IPKat wonders if any of his readers would be interested in helping this couple out. On first sight the case seems fairly hopeless, but this particular Kat is by no means an expert on domain name disputes. He would, however, be interested to see how it turns out.

Full post as published by IPKat on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).