Mike Hibbert wrote:
Hello All,

We have just created a Board Game Fansite, and are wondering about a
potential legal issue.

The site is called www.thexxxxx.co.uk (where xxxxxx is our name).

There are a couple of other sites around.....

www.xxxxxx.com which is a Voice over IP reseller site
www.xxxxxxs.org which is a games seller in the US
www.thexxxxxx.com which is a non engligh language Flash site

So, are we breaking any Copyright/trademark/intellectual property
rights? We are not doing this commercially, but simply a Fan site vith
views and reviews - much like a blog.

Thanks in advance, any help will be much appreciated!


Mike

As the name is amongst so many companies, having the domain name itself
won't be a problem. It's really down to content after that and only the
games reseller is likely to have an issue if they have that name
trademarked in the games field.