Lawsuits fly to determine ownership of 'Tribeca'

April 24, 2007 Longtime Tribeca resident Chuck Harris purchased the domain name Tribeca.net in 1995, and in 2006 he decided to use it to start a short-film festival, calling his group the Tribeca Network and applying for trademarks. Today, his low-budget operation (pictured above) allows users to post video and other multimedia, on which registered visitors may vote. In the other corner is the Tribeca Film Festival -- and its organizers, whose imprimatur has been apparent on film festivals in New York since 2002 -- which has become a major machine for film and the arts in New York.

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