quote:Country singer Keith Urban has filed a lawsuit against a painter of the same name, claiming that the lesser known Keith Urban's Web site infringes trademark and cyber-squatting laws.
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Admittedly the painter's website is sorta worded in a way that (seemingly intentionally) allows one to think it's the same Keith Urban. ("To Those Who Don't Know, Oil Painting Is One Of My Hobbies.") And all the Google ads of course reference the singer, but I doubt anyone could reasonably be held liable for that, either. But so often the term "reasonable" fails to apply to things in the way I think it should.
I think the classy thing to do would be for the artist to include a short disclaimer, and perhaps even offer a link to the "other" Keith Urban's website. Is there really that big a market for people buying oil paintings because they were thought to have been painted by a country singer?
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