Re: ACS sues Google for trademark infringement

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

Re:
> the story on the Chemical and Engineering News site: 
> http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/8250/8250acs.html
> 
> [and] today's online Chronicle of Higher Education, for those who have a 
> subscription.

The American Chemical Society (ACS) should (and will) be ashamed of
itself, forgetting it is a Scholarly Society and acting for all the world
like just another corporate bottom-feeder, trying to squeeze the most
revenue out of the leastmost commodity ("branding"). They might as well be
peddling hog-bellies, or H2O rights in Bolivia.

Fear not. The bottom line is not the scruple-free conduct of its
handsomely paid executives and legal staff, but the ACS membership (and
history itself), which will hold ACS accountable if it continues down this
sociopathic path instead of doing what scholarly societies are meant to
do.

Meanwhile, it would be fun if the various other "X Scholar" entities took
out a class action suit against ACS's "SciFinder Scholar"...

Eligible candidates include:

    American Scholar http://www.pbk.org/pubs/amscholar.htm
    Black Scholar http://www.theblackscholar.org/
    Zetetic Scholar http://tricksterbook.com/truzzi/ZeteticScholars.html

Stevan Harnad
Chaire de recherche du Canada
Centre de neuroscience de la cognition (CNC)
Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al
Montr�al, Qu�bec,  Canada  H3C 3P8
tel: 1-514-987-3000 2461#
fax: 1-514-987-8952
harnad@uqam.ca
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/