Richard Saville-Smith, who bought a lease on the domain name for his son, Comrie, faces legal action from CS Lewis Ltd, controller of the rights to the author’s work, which claims he bought it in bad faith with the aim of making money from the Narnia name in a common internet practice known as cyber-squatting.
A 128-page dossier, compiled by the New York lawyers Baker & McKenzie, arrived at Saville-Smith’s home in Edinburgh this month, urging him to relinquish the domain or face a hearing at the Geneva HQ of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), an arm of the UN which arbitrates on web law.
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