tomrafteryit.net — Web 2.0 Howtos now illegal.O'Reilly stated that they own the term Web2.0, if used to promote any meeting, conference, event or education they will sue. An Irish IT Charity has it's "Web 2.0 day" Cease and Desisted for Trademark Violation. IMHO Web2.0(tm) is an oxymoron.
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jeffleeismyheroMay 26, 2006
Time for Web 3.0Trademark and patent officers should be shot. How the f*ck are you going to give someone a trademark for the term Web 2.0. I read on ICANN last night that some agency registered sandalsagency.com and Sandals (resorts) stole it away on a trademark infringement claim. The ICANN brief claims that anything with "sandals" in it is ground for infringement. So if I had a blog with the domain "iwearsandals.com" they could take it.Who says that O' Reilly owns that term anyway? Did they think it up? Maybe MediaLive International came up with it? Why don't we call VoIP "Phone 2.0" and trademark it. Stupid Americans!(I am an American)
stillthereMay 26, 2006Submitter
Yes this is a serious issue with wider implications.No matter how Tim plays this out, how can we avoid such meme sqatting in the future.Want to use that shiny new buzzword ? Better be careful next time.There also remains the matter of the continual removal of the fact that "Web2.0" was trademarked from Wikipedia. Who were the continual removers and what is their connection to O'Reilly.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Web_2.0#Note_on_Web_2.0_Service_Mark">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Web_2.0#Note_on_Web_2.0_Service_Mark</a>
mike5654May 27, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://www.firoz.name/2006/05/20/who-coined-the-term-web-20/">http://www.firoz.name/2006/05/20/who-coined-the-term-web-20/</a>