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...i cannot do it from my bed....i have to do it on the web! :P
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The Cat in the Hat, world-famous children's cartoon-and-verse hero whose antics wreak havoc for youngsters he tries to help, won the right to a Web site matching his name Monday through the U.N. copyright agency.
But not before he had caused mighty confusion -- worthy of the madcap books by late U.S. artist Dr Seuss -- between the estate that owns him and the creator of a "copy-cat" site on the Internet, thecatinthehat.com.
Dr Seuss Enterprises, L.P., of La Jolla, California, told the U.N.'s WIPO -- which manages a system to settle site-name disputes -- that the Caribbean-based site owner had initially agreed to give up the site around nine months ago.
Chris Saunders of St Kitts and Nevis suggested a nice gesture in return would be a few Dr Seuss books and t-shirts for his nephews, aged five and seven, for whom he said he had set up the site.
But then came a Seuss-like twist in the tale. The registrar which had accepted the site, joker.com, declined to unregister it and the correspondence, in October and November last year, petered out.
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