It would appear that buying web domains which include trademarks or key terms could land you in hot water but where does something like this all end?

This isn’t new news,  all over the world companies have been taking so-called ‘cyber-squatters‘ to court for a few years.  Not just to protect their products, but to also secure the extra web traffic which may inadvertently stray on to unofficial websites.

So what are we to make of stories like this one? The CS Lewis estate will now take control of a privately purchased URL featuring ‘Narnia’ in its title. The buyer said he simply wanted it for his son’s email address.   Sometimes it may seem that ‘innocent’ individuals are getting stung by big businesses who will fiercely protect their brand but isn’t that what copyright law is for?  So to what degree should copyright infringements like this be persued?  Isn’t it about time that the companies only brought complaints against those who were abusing their material or is everybody on the take all the time?