Unauthorised use of protected name
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Hi,
We are the East Midlands Green Party, part of the Green Party of England and wales. Political party names are protected and registered with the electoral commission. Using these names unauthorised is an actual criminal offense.
We have had a blog https://eastmidlandsgreenparty.wordpress.com/ administrated and set up by a previous officer and member of the party. Unfortunately she left under unfortunate circumstances. She refused to change the ownership of the blog, claiming it was not possible, which is not correct. She also did not export all of our work (which was a lot), nor did she close it down. So she still owns the blog unauthorised, but she made it private. Effectively ensuring that we could not get that domain name. As I said this is a criminal offense owning a domain with a name that she is not entitled to use. She also is not entitled to hold the articles on there as they would be under copy right (were written on behalf of our party, not for herself, and by several authors). One author is myself, and I am not permitting her to keep myarticles on the blog. As you can see we have set a new blog up, but copying each article over from a word document is very time consuming.
I would like to know if you could transfer the ownership of the blog? Could you export the articles? And if the above is not possible you would have to either close the blog down or demand it to delete the articles and change the name, or delete the entire blog.
If you need any evidence, please do not hesitate and contact me.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I would like to know if you could transfer the ownership of the blog?
Companies, groups and organizations of any kind do not own blogs.
Every WordPress.COM blog has a sole owner. It is the person with the WordPress.COM username account who registered the blog under that username account and a single associated email address, and who is the original Admin of the blogs registered under that username account.
You have to be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard. The Admin login link to the dashboard for every blog hosted by wordpress.COM is:
http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
* You will have to replace “name_of_blog” with the actual blog’s name in that URL.
After the blog’s owner logs in clicking this link should display all blogs registered under the same username account, including the hidden ones: https://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs&show=hidden
If the blog’s owner does not see the blog here http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/ then they need to follow this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/my-blogs/#my-blogs-dashboard-visibility
If the log-in information is lost they need to visit https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword
If you do not have the required access you need to contact the person who registered the accounts and sites under them and have them transfer the sites to your username account by using this process. http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#transferring-your-blog-to-another-user-or-account
If you check each and every possible email address and account and are not successful gaining access to the blog(s) then you must complete the form for account recovery at this link https://en.wordpress.com/wp-login.php?action=recovery and submit it to the Account Recovery Staff, and provide proof ownership, so they can contact you by email ie. not on these public support forums, which are available to everyone with internet access.
Support Staff cannot breach the privacy policy and provide the log-in information. You have to provide proof ownership to Account Recovery Staff to gain access https://en.support.wordpress.com/account-recovery/
If you cannot provide proof ownership to Account Recovery Staff, so they can contact you by email ie. not on these public support forums, which are available to everyone with internet access, then you have reached a dead end.
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