I stayed at the Library one night -- it was great.
But, if you check their Web site, sure enough they use the name "Dewey
Decimal" on the opening page: http://www.libraryhotel.com/welcome.htm
Hannah
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Hannah Frost
Media Preservation Librarian
Stanford University Libraries
At 09:53 AM 9/25/2003 -0400, you wrote:
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
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>>> <[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
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