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Nominet has ordered the transfer of the domain name ihateryanair.co.uk from Robert Tyler to Ryanair.
Robert Tyler registered the domain name and used it for his anti-Ryanair website, which was devoted to criticism of the airline.
Nominet ordered the transfer not because the domain name pointed to a protest site, but because Mr Tyler derived advertising revenue from that site totalling £322 – hardly a fortune.
But maybe Mr Tyler has had the last laugh – he has moved his website to here and has removed the commercial advertisements. Interestingly, at the time of this posting, the domain name ihateryanair.co.uk still points to Mr Tyler’s website.
Conversely a victory for free speech then! Brand owners should beware of the limitations of the Nominet dispute resolution process in relation to criticism websites. If you are looking to manage online content about your brand consider also whether the content is defamatory, or whether your trade mark has been infringed.
As has been widely reported this week, some 3,000 UK workers are taking part in a six month trial to assess the viability of a four-day working week without any reduction in their normal pay.
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In Nissan v Passi, the High Court recently considered the issue of an employee retaining confidential documents belonging to his former employer in the context of the employer’s application for an injunction seeking the return of such documents from the employee.
The UK government is considering extending this power to depart from retained EU case law to additional lower courts and tribunals, namely the Court of Appeal in England and Wales and the High Court of Justice in England and Wales and their equivalents.
Lord Justice Arnold has applied the guidance of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to the evidence before him, in the long standing trade mark dispute between Sky and Skykick.
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