Back in October, shortly after Variety broke the news that Sony Pictures was in the final negotiations with Ubisoft for an Assassin’s Creed film, I wrote about Sony Pictures registering more than a dozen related domains like assassinscreedfilm.com and assassinscreedthefilm.com.
There still is no official website for the film, which could be released as early as 2014, but now Ubisoft has secured ownership of the web address: assassinscreedthemovie.com.
The domain name exchanged hands earlier this week, after Ubisoft contacted the previous owner by e-mail and informed them that they had rights to the name.
Wanting to avoid legal troubles, the owner (whom I spoke with by e-mail) quickly transferred the domain to Ubisoft, saving Ubisoft the hassle of filing a domain dispute.
To date Ubisoft has filed only one complaint over a domain.
In 2010, it won a case (Claim Number: FA0912001298869) for princeofpersia.com, after filing a dispute with the National Arbitration Forum.
Also this past week, Ubisoft Entertainment filed three separate trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Serial Number: 85482572, Serial Number: 85482583 and Serial Number: 85482580.
Here’s a quick look at the goods and services covered in the trademark filings.
“Entertainment services, namely, continuing television programs and interactive television programs featuring comedy, drama, live-action, and animation, broadcast over television, satellite, audio, and video media; presentation of live stage show performances, presentation of live show performances by costumed characters, and presentation of live theatrical performances; production and distribution of motion pictures”
“Audio and video recordings featuring live-action entertainment; audio and visual recordings featuring live-action entertainment; Pre-recorded DVDs, digital versatile discs and digital video discs featuring live-action entertainment”
“printed matter, namely books featuring works of fiction; printed matter, namely comics featuring works of fiction”
As of the time of this story going online, assassinscreedthemovie.com doesn’t resolve to a website.
(Photo of the short YouTube movie Assassin’s Creed: Lineage via Ubisoft)
