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I hope that you aren't anybody's lawyer because you are spouting complete rubbish. There are certain circumstances where Clarkson could have a right to the DOMAIN jeremyclarkson.com, but there is NO situation where he could make a legitimate argument that he has the right to request that a website owner "shut down the sub or relinquish control to him" just because the site uses his name in a post-domain path (e.g. reddit.com/r/jeremyclarkson).
"Existence, acknowledgment, assertion and response" are irrelevant-- what matters is whether the website owner is using the trademark of another in a manner that is likely to cause confusion as to the source of the website. And use of a trademark in a post-domain path doesn't create confusion. But don't just take my word for it, allow the Sixth Circuit[1] to explain: "Because post-domain paths do not typically signify source, it is unlikely that the presence of another's trademark in a post-domain path of a URL would ever violate trademark law."
1: https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/reporter/F3/326/326.F3d.687.01-3590.html
Maybe next time have a clue what the fuck you are talking about.
Comment by ReallyEvilCanine at 09/02/2014 at 21:19 UTC
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allow the Sixth Circuit to explain
If only Clarkson was a United States citizen, under United States jurisdiction, and the topic was limited to the United States and not subject to any internationally recognised jurisprudence.
Maybe next time have a clue what the fuck you are talking about.