imaginarynumber Posted February 26, 2010 Share Posted February 26, 2010 Hi all I am currently hosting a site on my reseller acc for a friend of mine. The content of the site relates his experience with a large spread betting company- in short he feels that he has been ripped off. The company in question is now threatening legal action. They have an issue with the domain name and the site content. I have advised him to change the domain name. His legal advice is that the content is OK. The spreadbetting firm say that they have/are contacting TCH with a view to the site being taken down. In the meantime I have removed the content pending a reply to a support ticket that i have submitted. Does anyone have any advice? I dont want to have to kowtow to some bully just because they say so but by the same token I don't want to fall foul of the TCH t&cs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imaginarynumber Posted February 27, 2010 Author Share Posted February 27, 2010 just an update Spoke to the legal dept and they had been approached a month ago. They replied to the spreadbetting firm that the site was an expression of opnion and as such covered by the first amendment. I was relived to discover that I had not strayed outside of the TOCs. I shall probably leave the site down whilst I ask my friend to get a second legal opinion. In the meantime he has been told by the firm that using their company name infringes the trademark laws, I guess that they mean in both the domain name and the site content... I had assumed that this would only be an issue if one were trying masquerade as the real company and mislead the public into a sale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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