Dennis Myers, Commentary

Facebook, which seems to be following Google’s example in squandering corporate good will, has laid trademark claim to the word “book.”

The rule appears in its user agreement: “You will not use our copyrights or trademarks (including Facebook, the Facebook and F Logos, FB, Face, Poke, Book and Wall …), or any confusingly similar marks.”

When I sent some friends a link to Dictionary.com‘s commentary, a journalism professor replied, “I can’t see how you can copyright a word that has been in dictionaries for centuries.”

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