Maloofs actually patented 4 different names

[Trueblood]

Says here that we're looking at the "Anaheim Royals", "Los Angeles Royals", "Orange County Royals" and "Anaheim Royals of Southern California".

This is strange given the fact that there is lease mandating that any team that moves in the Honda Center have "Anaheim in front of the team name and be the sole geographic identifier". That would eliminate LA, OC or "Anaheim Royals of Southern California" since "Southern California" should be considered a geographic identifier.

I wonder if they are trying to negotiate a deal. When the Angels got to add "Los Angeles" to the front of their name, they claimed that it would bring in more corporate sponsors. It's possible that the Maloofs are telling Samueli that they can get X amount of extra sponsors if they are named after LA or OC instead of Anaheim and that they will share half of "X" with him and that they should be able to renegotiate the lease as a result of that.

http://www.kcra.com/news/27219777/detail.html

 

[Peter_Gibbons]

Not really that strange. If they are using Anaheim Royals, they still wouldn't want someone to register Los Angeles Royals and the likes in the future just to mess with them.

 

[Superman]

Automatic redirects...

 

[Glenn]

Automatic redirects...

For the web site. Yes. Patenting or copyrighting a name prevents anyone from using that URL for their own web site. That is point one. There are reasons for that. A person could buy that URL with the intent of ripping off the team which is what used to happen. A copyright allows the team to takeover the URL if they have a patent or copyright on the name. They need to reimburse the person who wanted the windfall only the amount of money that person spent. The copyright also protects the team from someone else using that name to cause confusion. As to the internet they will have the rights to MANY combinations of those words. These principles have been argued already.

If you type in those words, you get redirected to the "real" web site. Type in kings.com and you actually end up on a subsection of NBA.com

I think Jeremy has a variety of variations of KingsFans also. Type in KingsFans.org or KingsFans.net and see what happens. When I had KingsFans.com, nothing stopped him from having KingsFans.net. The present laws protect the team but probably wouldn't have protected me because I had no copyright on the name.

If I remember correctly, he had bought up quite a few names and I wrote to him like "what up, dude? You messin' with me?"

 

[Trueblood]

Thanks guys. As you can see, I'm a little ignorant on copyright issues but hey, that's why we have these boards. It helps set the record straight.