Lumix domain value
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- ukit0
To expand on this a bit-
Is it illegal? Yes. At the same time, people do make money off what are technically copyrighted names, largely through affiliate marketing and/or direct sales. What doesn't really fly anymore is this idea of extorting the company to sell them the name.
One well-known example - Collis Ta'eed's hugely successful Flash component site Flashden (technically a copyrighted name) was going fine for about a year. Then one day apparently Adobe noticed it and threatened them with a lawsuit. They are now no longer called Flashden. But plenty of other Flash websites, which apparently are too small/ insignificant to justify Adobe's time, are still around - for now.
That doesn't mean you couldn't sell it. www.flippa.com is one place where site and domain bids happen. retweet dot com recently sold for a cool $250k, even though it is technically a copyright of Twitter (although their claim to that is somewhat in dispute). Whether a site like this will bar you from even selling, and whether people will buy the domain considering the brand being copyrighted, I have no idea. You could also ask people on an SEO/ web marketing forum like digitalpoint or WickedFire as they may be able to give you better advice.
- Like acescence points out, trademarked not copyright. Always mess that one up ;(ukit