What's not clear from the articles about the suit is whether the Library Hotel actually used the name "Dewey Decimal" anyplace. The system itself is too old for copyright or patent protection to apply, and I can't see any way the OCLC has an enforceable trademark in the individual numbers themselves.
kwg Kevin W. Grierson Willcox & Savage, P.C. One Commercial Place, Ste. 1800 Norfolk, Virginia 23510 mailto:[email protected] ph: 757/628-5603 fx: 757/628-5566 http://wilsav.com Sign up for our E-Commerce Newsletter at http://wilsav.com/nep/news_signup.html >>> <[email protected]> 09/25/03 01:55AM >>> >From the "Hey, Let's Kill a Great Idea" department: "Who knew that someone owned the Dewey Decimal System? Apparently not the owners of the Library Hotel, nestled in the shadow of the New York Public Library. Now the boutique hotel, which numbers its guest rooms and stocks them with books according to Melvil Dewey's century-old library classification system, is being sued for using it." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/23/nyregion/23DEWE.html?ex=1065325432&ei=1&; amalyah keshet head of image resources & copyright management the israel museum, jerusalem www.imj.org.il board of directors, the museum computer network www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
