High School Epitaph!

When Richard Saville-Smith innocently bought his eleven year old son, Comrie, a domain name for his birthday, he never expected he would involved in a legal war with one of the world?s largest law firms and UN intellectual property regulators.

A special present for the young CS Lewis fan, the ?70 purchase of the domain name Narnia.mobi has pitted the family against the author’s literary estate just before the UK premiere of the new Narnia film.

Mr Saville-Smith has been accused of buying the domain name in bad faith with the aim of making money from the Narnia name, a common internet practice known as cyber-squatting.

A 128-page dossier, compiled by the New York lawyers Baker & McKenzie, arrived at Saville-Smith’s home in Edinburgh this month, urging him to relinquish the domain or face a hearing at the Geneva HQ of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), an arm of the UN which arbitrates on web law.