Comedian Bill Cosby wins rights to Fat Albert name in cyberspace

September 2005

Comedian Bill Cosby won control of an Internet domain name including the name of the Fat Albert cartoon he created in the 1960s, under a ruling issued Monday by a United Nations panel.

Arbitrators for the World Intellectual Property Organization ordered the transfer of the domain name http://www.fatalbert.org to the American actor, who had complained that it infringed his trademark rights and was being used in bad faith to divert Internet traffic to a commercial search engine and a Web site selling sexually explicit products.