Blogging under my daughter's name – is that identity theft?
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My daughter has a completely unique name. Unfortunately someone has adopted her name as a wordpress.com domain, scraped content from other sites and put it onto their wordpress.com as a blog under her name. Isn’t that illegal? Can I sue wordpress to get it back? I don’t want to link to the url as that will just generate traffic to the site. Please help as this is causing her distress!
ps I own her name as a domain site – I understand the difference
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Hi there,
Sorry but no one on this planet owns a name. Do you own the registered trademark? http://automattic.com/trademark-policy/Copyright violations: If a blog at WordPress.com features your own original content and violates copyright law, please use our DMCA reporting process. http://automattic.com/dmca/
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P.S. As Terms of Service complaints are matters that are not discussed on these public support forums and you will be contacting them by email I have tagged this thread for closure.
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