tomrafteryit.net — Tim O'Reilly and his pack of lawyers have sent a cease and desist notice to the conference organisers of a web 2.0 event in Ireland. Seems the term is his and nobody else better use it. The irony is Tim was invited and said he'd have loved to have gone but was too busy.
May 25, 2006 View in Crawl 4
p9s50w5k4gud2c6May 26, 2006
According to Google, the term "Web 2.0" appears 77,700,000 times on the web.Just how many lawyers DO you have Timmy Boy?
blogscepticMay 26, 2006
HahahahhaWhat an idiot
dancoMay 26, 2006
O'Reilly is only claiming that this is copyrighted in association with conferences. This is because they have a conference called the "Web 2.0 Conference". They aren't trying to make wide sweeping claims. They're just trying to protect the trademark of their conference. Whether you think that they should try to protect this, don't blow it out of proportion.
playfulmindMay 26, 2006
this link was the original but the dup got more popular, that kinda sucks<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/technology/O%E2%80%99Reilly_trademarks_%E2%80%9CWeb_2.0%E2%80%B3_and_sets_lawyers_on_IT@Cork#c1812040">http://digg.com/technology/O%E2%80%99Reilly_trademarks_%E2%80%9CWeb_2.0%E2%80%B3_and_sets_lawyers_on_IT@Cork#c1812040</a>