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> redirect the URL to some place seedy That business can potentially claim damages.
by Aspos 6y ago
> redirect the URL to some place seedy
That business can potentially claim damages.
- milankragujevic 6y agoNo they can't. I mean they can, but you can literally sue anyone for anything. Doesn't mean you're right or entitled to compensation of any kind, especially in this case. In fact, the owner of the website (OP) can sue the listing "owner" and Google and probably get something, but it's not proportional to the effort and wasted time + money.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoThey can claim them but I very much doubt they'd win in court - "we're infringing someone's Trademark and impersonating them on Google and they redirected traffic on their own website and that redirection is harming our ability to fraudulently profit from their trademark" ... kinda like suing someone you murdered because they made your knife messy.
- dylan604 6y agoThe OP would still suffer expenses defending the messy knife claim in court. If the bad actor has deeper pockets, this would be just one more way for the bad guy to continue being a bad actor
- NeutronStar 6y agoYou think a judge would approve the suit?
- Cpoll 6y agoI'm concerned that this is being downvoted, and that people in this thread are giving legal advice without any caveat or mention of country, state, etc.