Freeman wins rights to cyberspace name

Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman won control of the internet domain name www.morganfreeman.com in a ruling issued by a United Nations panel.

Freeman wins rights to cyberspace name

Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman won control of the internet domain name www.morganfreeman.com in a ruling issued by a United Nations panel.

Arbitrators for the World Intellectual Property Organisation ordered the transfer of the domain name to the American actor, who had complained that it was being used in bad faith to divert internet traffic to a commercial search engine.

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