OCLC Sues NY Hotel Over DDC
This lawsuit alleges that the Library Hotel in New York is infringing on a trademark of OCLC, a major library consortium which owns the rights to the Dewey Decimal System of classification, by using the DDC as a theme for the hotel. The room numbers correspond to DDC classification numbers (like 641.5: cookbooks) and each floor is dedicated to a DDC category. The hotel overlooks the New York Public Library.
Does anyone want to debate whether a hotel using the DDC is better than a hotel using LC? (That’s the colloquial name for the Library of Congress classification system. There’s a huge debate among librarians about whether LC is better than DDC.)
