O´Reilly Wants to Own The Trademark for The Term “Web 2.0″

Web 2.o is about user generated content, and this content is owned by the user, not by a single company, organisation or person. Nevertheless, Tom Raftery got an unpleasant mail.

One of these events – the upcoming Web 2.0 half-day conference is the target of a cease and desist letter (below) from the legal team of O’Reilly publishers. Basically O’Reilly are claiming to have applied for a trademark for the term “Web 2.0″ and therefore IT@Cork can’t use the term for its conference. Apparantly use of the term “Web 2.0″ is a “flagrant violation” of their trademark rights!

Click Toms blog for more information. One of the comments just recently said…

Why not invoke your predilection for Monty Python and call it “that-phase-of-the-web-that-shall-happen-before-web-3.0″

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