Katie Jones, owner of the katie.com domain, has prevailed over Penguin Books, who published an unrelated novel called “Katie.com.” Katie Tarbox, the author of Katie.com, has disavowed any connection with the arm-twisting lawyer who phoned up Katie Jones under false pretenses and attempted to intimidate her into giving up her domain. Total victory, in other words. Kickass!
“We are not working in association with author Katie Tarbox or any other individual inan attempt to assume ownership of the domain name address www.katie.com. Of course, the personal views of the author are hers and do not represent Plume in any way.
“Going forward, Plume and the author have decided to re-title this book A Girl’s Life Online. This is an important book about predatory pedophiles on the Internet and how we can protect our children. We changed the title to keep focus on this issue. The newly titled book will be released next month. We have always taken this situation very seriously. And we hope that by making this title change, it will demonstrate just howdedicated Plume is to clarifying this matter.”
(Thanks, Zed and Roger!)