Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents and open source projects

[Eric Lease Morgan]

Ironically, I had (or there was) some trouble with the term 
"MyLibrary@NCState". Granted, the term was originally a variation of My 
Netscape, My Yahoo, and My Deja News, but all sorts of things followed it, like 
MyiLibrary, the Google Books My Library, and then there was a ALA thing. I'm 
not necessarily saying MyLibrary was the leader here, but an example of how 
trademarks (monikers) can be used, abused, and morphed. --Eric Morgan