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Microsoft lightens up on teen's mikerowesoft site
"We
take our trademark seriously, but in this case maybe a little too
seriously," Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said. "We
appreciate that Mike Rowe is a young entrepreneur who came up with a creative
domain name, so we're currently in the process of resolving this matter in a
way that will be fair to him and satisfy our obligations under trademark
law," Desler said. In
November, Microsoft's Canadian lawyers demanded that Rowe, 17, change the name
of his Internet site, claiming copyright infringement. They said they would pay
Rowe, who lives in But
the high school student decided to fight back and his story got media attention
to the extent that he was forced to shut down his Web site Monday morning after
getting about 250,000 hits. He managed to get the site back up after moving to
a service provider with greater capacity. "I
never expected this type of feedback. I have put up a defense fund so that I
can hire a lawyer to guide me through the process of talking to Microsoft.... I
could never think this could happen, even in my wildest dreams," Rowe
wrote on his site. Rowe
is demanding $10,000 from Microsoft to change the site's name. Jen -- |
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