What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? FL
I'm starting my own magazine, and I was curious about some possible issues that may arrive out of the business name. For the sake of anonymity, let's just say that my subject matter is about cars. So I wanted to name the magazine "Auto Magazine" and buy the domain automagazine.com to go with it. Well, automagazine.com was taken (not surprisingly), so I got automag.com instead.
Now, I did some research and apparently some German company owns the automagazine.com website, and apparently it's just parked for the moment. But I've been registering Twitter and Facebook accounts under the "Automagazine" username, not "Automag" like my website... cause automag is just the short form web address and the magazine itself will have "Auto Magazine" as it's official title.
So my question is, if for some reason the owners of automagazine.com decide they want to register accounts on twitter and facebook under the name that I'm now using, would they have ground to copyright/trademark infringement claims seeing as they own the full automagazine.com domain name and I don't? I hope this all made sense
I'm starting my own magazine, and I was curious about some possible issues that may arrive out of the business name. For the sake of anonymity, let's just say that my subject matter is about cars. So I wanted to name the magazine "Auto Magazine" and buy the domain automagazine.com to go with it. Well, automagazine.com was taken (not surprisingly), so I got automag.com instead.
Now, I did some research and apparently some German company owns the automagazine.com website, and apparently it's just parked for the moment. But I've been registering Twitter and Facebook accounts under the "Automagazine" username, not "Automag" like my website... cause automag is just the short form web address and the magazine itself will have "Auto Magazine" as it's official title.
So my question is, if for some reason the owners of automagazine.com decide they want to register accounts on twitter and facebook under the name that I'm now using, would they have ground to copyright/trademark infringement claims seeing as they own the full automagazine.com domain name and I don't? I hope this all made sense