Friday, May 14, 2010

If the World Wildlife Fun (WWF) had been around longer than the World Wrestling Federation, (WWF)?

Why did they wait so long to sue the World Wrestling Federation for the copyright infringmentIf the World Wildlife Fun (WWF) had been around longer than the World Wrestling Federation, (WWF)?
Actually, they had an agreement, but the WWE violated it:





In 2000, the World Wildlife Fund (also WWF), an environmental organization now called the World Wide Fund for Nature, sued the World Wrestling Federation. A British court agreed that Titan Sports had violated a 1994 agreement which had limited the permissible use of the WWF initials overseas, particularly in merchandising.[10]





On Sunday May 5, 2002, the company quietly changed all references on its website from ';WWF'; to ';WWE';, while switching the URL from WWF.com to WWE.com. The next day, a press release announced the official name change from World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. to World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., or WWE, and the change was publicized later that day during a telecast of Monday Night Raw, which emanated from the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut. For a short time, WWE used the slogan ';Get The 'F' Out.';[11] The company had also been ordered by court to stop using the old WWF Attitude logo on any of its properties and to censor all past references to WWF, as they no longer owned the trademark to the initials WWF in 'specified circumstances'.[12] However, despite litigation, WWE is still permitted use of the original WWF logo, which was used from 1984 through 1997, as well as the ';New WWF Generation'; logo, which was used from 1994 through 1998. Furthermore, the company may still make use of the full ';World Wrestling Federation'; and ';World Wrestling Federation Entertainment'; names without consequence.If the World Wildlife Fun (WWF) had been around longer than the World Wrestling Federation, (WWF)?
World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) founded in 1952.





World Wildlife Fund (now World Wide Fund for Nature) founded in 1961.
A court in Europe ruled in favor of the World Wildlife Fund. So World Wrestling Federation had to change to World Wrestling Entertainment. WWE has moved on from it and so should you.





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actually, it didn't.





According to wikipedia and other online sources


World Wrestling Federation was founded in 1952.


World Wide Fund was founded in 1961.





Why did Vince lost the trial? I don't really know..
That's a very good question! I hate it that they made them change the name after all of those years...it was ridiculous. But I'm used to WWE now...I thought I wouldn't get used to it but it looks good and maybe even better now...WWF or WWE





I don't know...





But yeah, they just decided to sue because they were going to do more advertising and everything and they wanted to use WWF.





I hate it when people still call it WWF, too.

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