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The Guardian is reporting on an upcoming legal battle between the estate of CS Lewis, author of the much loved Narnia series of children’s books, and Richard Saville-Smith, a father who allegedly bought the domain narnia.mobi as a birthday present for his son.
According to The Guardian, Saville-Smith received a very large dossier (128 pages) from lawyers acting on behalf of CS Lewis Ltd. Essentially the dossier claims that Saville-Smith:
bought [the domain] in bad faith with the aim of making money from the Narnia name in a common internet practice known as cyber-squatting.
Saville-Smith denies the claims, and is apparently intent on fighting the legal action, potentially resulting in a hearing at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) which handles such c...