Filmmaker Spike Lee has beaten Philippine-based porn cybersquatter Mercedita Kyamko, whose SpikeLee.com redirected visitors hoping for information about the director of Do The Right Thing, 4 Little Girls, and She Hate Me to an adult Website.

Canadian attorney Edward Chiasson, a neutral arbitrator the WIPO named to consider the Lee case, ruled that Kyamko registered SpikeLee.com in bad faith, and the domain will be transferred to Lee within 10 days of the ruling unless Kyamko appeals the ruling in court. Kyamko reportedly registered SpikeLee.com in 1999.

“It is difficult to ascertain any good faith use by [Kyamko] of the subject domain name and the actual use raises a clear inference of bad faith,” Chiasson wrote. “The subject domain name replicates the Complainant’s mark and is used solely to attract users to a pornographic Website.

(via AVN Online)

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