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Originally Posted by DoubleTap  ?
Anyway, if you can show me a case in the UK where a domain name is deemed to be a legal asset, then I'd be very interested indeed to see the case number. Not where the registrant says its an asset, but where the Court says it. |
According to the registration contract, I think it is a contractual right or a license to use - which is capable of being a valuable asset.
Here however is what Lord Hoffman had to say in the House of Lords judgment in OBG v Allan (more famous for the Michael Douglas/Catherine Zeta Jones wedding photos spat - can't imagine why that was better tabloid fodder!
) :
I have no difficulty with the proposition that a domain name may be intangible property, like a copyright or trade mark,....
To read the quote in context, it's at paragraph 101 of the judgment
here.
BTW - that's not legal advice, just something that may or may not be relevant to DoubleTap's question.
