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Film hero Cruise defeats cyber-pirate, offscreen
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-07-25 10:43
Tom Cruise today won an off-screen combat -
against a cyber-pirate who was using his name for advertising.
The UN
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 US-based Network Operations Centre 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.
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