Something I see no one questioning is how a system that started life as a private creation, and that has been used in non-profit circumstances for much of its life can suddenly have trademark law applied to it. Is this true of other classification systems as well? If I wish to start a public access library, cannot I simply acquire the manuals and begin using Dewey, LC, et al.? What if I purchased the manuals used from a defunct library or at a used book sal3? In that case, the original publisher wouldn't even receive any benefit. Isn't all this material in the public domain?
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