Al Jazeera Magazine
In 2005 and 2006 Aljazeera Publishing was involved in a number of legal disputes with Al Jazeera TV Channel covering domain usage of Aljazeera.com and trade mark registrations. The domain name usage case arbitrated by World Intellectual Property Organization proved highly embarrassing for the TV Channel who were found guilty of "abusing the administrative proceedings" and had its case rejected with the panel questioning the integrity of the evidence submitted by the TV Channel.
Aljazeera Publishing first published a magazine in 1992 called Al Jazeera Al Arabia. Since then it has adopted a shortened version of the name as simply Al-Jazeera Magazine as listed in Media UK.
The shortening of the title occurred after an external investment by a Saudi Arabian investment company. Al Jazeera Publishing was highly critical of the Saudi Arabian government’s human rights records and published a number of critical reports in 1993, 1994 and 1995.
These human rights reports raised Al Jazeera Al Arabia’s profile on the Middle East stage. Extracts of such reports were used in a Human Rights Watch report as published in 1993, as well as the Islamic Research and Information Center.
Since 1996 no more anti Saudi Arabian stories appeared in any of Al Jazeera Publishing titles, rather the attention appeared to have turned against the Qatari ruling family with a string of hostile articles such as "Egypt arrests Qatari prince over illegal car race", "Qatari prince convicted of abusing girls", "First church in Muslim Qatar risks backlash" and "Qatar finances sports centre in Israel".
In March 2011 Al Jazeera TV Channel acquired alJazeera.com and redirected to the website of Al Jazeera English.
Aljazeera.com is, since March 2011, an alternate address for the Al Jazeera English website. The domain name was acquired by Al Jazeera in March 2011 from Aljazeera Publishing, a Dubai-based media company which owned the separate Al Jazeera Magazine, after a long-running domain name dispute between the two entities.
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