According to Slashdot, the American Chemical Society is suing Google over their use of the title Google Scholar. The American Chemical Society has a product called SciFinder Scholar, and they feel that Google Scholar infringes on their trademark. Wow, this is like Spike Lee thinking he has the sole right to the name Spike and Fox News suing Al Franken over his use of the phrase “fair and balanced.” Of course this is more about the fact that users must pay to use SciFinder Scholar while Google Scholar is free, but when do we actually sue over what we’re actually pissed off about anymore?
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Words we can’t use anymore: Add “scholar” to the list
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Meredith Farkas
12/11/2004
Meredith Farkas is a faculty librarian at Portland Community College in Oregon. From 2007-2021, she wrote the monthly column “Technology in Practice” for American Libraries. Meredith was honored in 2014 with the ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award, in 2008 and 2011 with the WISE Excellence in Online Education Award and in 2009 with the LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. She has been writing the blog Information Wants to be Free since 2004.
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