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JRR Tolkien slays cryptocurrency website that planned to trade as JRR Token

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Joshua Rozenberg
Nov 23, 2021
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A website set up to promote a cryptocurrency called JRR Token has been forced to surrender its domain name to the estate of JRR Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

Tolkien’s beneficiaries filed a complaint with WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, whose arbitration and mediation centre resolves domain name disputes. Th…

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