retired_member12

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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.

IanTurner

Very much with you on that legal asset ruling DoubleTap.

Back to rottentomatoes.co.uk - Personally I had never heard of rottentomatoes.com before this thread and my immediate thought was of throwing them at somebody in the stocks.

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Beasty

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.