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Metadata a Trademark?
For interest. A colleague has passed this message to me from a news
server (lots of information at the Web site, too).
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Subject: metadata is a no-no?
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 14:08:16 -0700
Organization: United States Bureau of Land Management
The BLM has received a lawyer's letter informing us that that METADATA
as
applied to computer programs is a registered u.s. trademark (#
1,409,260).
They inform us that "your organization has published a number of
documents on the Internet in which our clients's registed trademark
METADATA has been misused. Our client has no objection to your use of
two
separate consecutive words "meta data" or even the hyphenated
"meta-data"
to describe data about data. However the single unhyphenated term
METADATA is a registered trademark which belongs exclusively to our
client."
for WWW mapping and/or metadata sites, http://www.blm.gov/gis/nsdi.html
for the BLM GeoSpatial Home Page, http://www.blm.gov/gis/
for GIS utilities and related stuff, ftp://ftp.blm.gov/pub/gis
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Graham Baker
Executive Officer
Australia New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC)
PO Box 2
BELCONNEN ACT 2616
Australia
Ph: +61-6-201 4299
Mob: 041-9228226
Fax: +61-6-201 4366
e-mail: anzlic@auslig.gov.au
home page: http://www.auslig.gov.au/pipc/anzlic/anzlicma.htm
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