A dealer in internet domain names is accused in a cybersquatting suit of an illegal attempt to seize on the posthumous popularity of Prince.

The recording artist’s estate filed suit in a Newark federal court Wednesday against Domain Capital of Englewood, New Jersey, which owns the rights to www.prince.com. The suit claims that the company’s ownership of the domain violates §43(d) of the Lanham Act because it represents a bad-faith intent to profit from association with the artist, who died at age 57 in 2016.

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