Typo of someone's name illegal?

[GiddyUp]

Im wondering if a typo of someones name (a famous, well known person) would be considered a TM infringement?

 

[irishmat]

if its gonna get type in traffic and therefore make revenue just do it, if they give you any grief give them the name

 

[goodkarmaco]

Go for it. I don't get these high profile people who are sitting around and don't buy up different variations of their name. They certainly have the money. You can bet Madonna and some people do it but other famous people do not.

The thing is though in my experience is you will sit on the name and make very little in ppc. I use to own a lot of of Britney spearsnames such as britneyspearsbaby etc You would think I would make some cash from those... nah..

I'm staying away from them not because of tm issues, but becasue of low click rates and low click thru.

Get names with high click prices, not the ones like that. The celeb names only make a penney a click or something!

Of course exceptions to this rule exist..

Roderick

 

[GiddyUp]

thanks to those who responded, good info!

 

[-TV-]

if it is TM , i usely dont get them , but you are free as what others said you can park it and make money from it when you are asked to give it , just dont fight give it away , but you will need to do some home work on how much you think you can get hits, revenu ...

Tv

 

[smub]

i would say go get any of those names you like. The company trademarked their name like google.com .... they didn't trademarked goopgle.com or anything .... so it should be no problem.

good luck

 

[Dave_Z]

Im wondering if a typo of someones name (a famous, well known person) would be considered a TM infringement?

That's the burden of the person in question to demonstrate.

But I'm sure you know what you're doing. :D