Meta Tags Ruling Upheld By Appeals Court

Remember the Playboy Case?

[rubble88]

Full-Text of the article at:
[newsbytes.com...]

An appeals court has upheld the right of a former Playboy Playmate to use the trademarked "Playboy" moniker on her own Web site, and endorsed a lower court's ruling two years ago that allowed Terri Welles to advertise her association with the entertainment giant through HTML meta tags...But a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Friday that Welles' references to her former title - including the HTML meta tags - represented "fair use" of the Playboy name.

You can read the full-text of the opinion at:
[ca9.uscourts.gov...]

[john316]

<<We note that our deci-sion might differ if the metatags listed the trademarked term so repeatedly that Welles' site would regularly appear above PEI's in searches for one of the trademarked terms.<<

I guess we are not the only people who study serps.

[TallTroll]

>>>> We note that our deci-sion might differ if the metatags listed the trademarked term so repeatedly that Welles' site would regularly appear above PEI's in searches for one of the trademarked terms.

>> I guess we are not the only people who study serps.

Guess not. I would love to see a current example of a site getting a better ranking than another similar one by spamming the keyword tag though :)

I take there are no Appellate Justices lurking here then?