... it's an O'Reilly Service Mark!
The We finally know what Web 2.0 is… article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
How wonderful to finally have a succinct definition of this term :P
If you're a stickler for details, Web 2.0 is registered as a trademark not by O'Reilly but a company called CMP Media which apparently registered Web 2.0 with the USPTO in November of 2003. According to O'Reilly, CMP Media co-produces the Web 2.0 conference. CMP Media is part of a larger UK-based company called United Business Media which also owns PR Newswire.
So, I guess it's fair to say that Web 2.0 is officialy owned by The Man! Time for a new term? How about the Open Web?
The We finally know what Web 2.0 is… article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
[...] Web 2.0 is a registered trademark and has been since 2003! CMP Media, the trademark holder, co-produces the Web 2.0 conference. So for you developers out there talking and publishing about Web 2.0 hype, you are infringing on a trademark. [...]
or the InterWeb?
Mind you I have been calling it that for ages….
MD
InterWeb ? OpenWeb ? Hm…. [ rushes to trademark register office ]