“An internet entrepreneur today launched a legal battle with computer giant Apple to overturn a ruling over the ownership of a website address. Benjamin Cohen, 22, has applied to the High Court for a judicial review of a dispute over the address itunes.co.uk,” John-Paul Ford Rojas reports for The Scotsman.
“Earlier this month Nominet, the body which manages a central database of domain names, ruled the name should be handed over to Applem” Rojas reports. “But today Mr Cohen expressed surprise at the decision and said he would be challenging the legitimacy of Nominet in making it. He said: ‘We feel that the procedure that Nominet utilise to settle disputes is unfair and biased towards big business at the expense of legitimate small British companies.'”
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