Cosby wins Web rights to Fat Albert

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Looks like a cybersquatter lost the right to his registered domain name after the UN ruled on the case. Funny these cases make it so far in the court system.

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) -- Comedian Bill Cosby won control of an Internet domain name, including the name of the Fat Albert cartoon he created in the 1960s, under a ruling issued Monday by a United Nations panel.

Arbitrators for the World Intellectual Property Organization ordered the transfer of the domain name http://www.fatalbert.org to the American actor, who had complained that it infringed his trademark rights and was being used in bad faith to divert Internet traffic to a commercial search engine and a Web site selling sexually explicit products.

The ruling upheld Cosby's complaint against the individual that registered the name -- Sterling Davenport, of Loretto, Tennessee.