RE: UKNM: Meta Tags?

[Jennifer Rigby]

If you use another company's trademarks in your meta tags you can be sued -

the most recent case against Road Tech computer systems set a legal

precedent in the UK stopping trade names not belonging to a company being

used in that company's meta tags.


some more info (not totally up-to-date) at

http://searchenginewatch.internet.com/resources/metasuits.html


Jennifer


Jennifer Rigby

Search and Metadata Producer, BBC Online

http://www.bbc.co.uk/



> -----Original Message-----

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From: jasonloquax [dot] com [jasonloquax [dot] com (mailto:jasonloquax [dot] com)]

> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 11:53 AM

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To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: UKNM: Meta Tags?

>

>

> Hi

>

> What's the situation regarding another company using another's

> site name and domain names in the meta tags of their site?

>

> anyone know?

>

> cheers

>

> Jason

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