Elmo always finding exciting and innovative ways to grift.
Fucking greedheads don’t leave anything alone.
Well of course he shouldn’t, those are age-old science fiction terms and it would be-
turns out that another person had already filed to trademark those names
I hate everything.
Future archeologists/historians:
“It’s really really strange, but we’ve hit a period of time where the only word used in public and personal creations was “Marklar.” They used it to describe everything. Entire stories were simply the word Marklar over and over and over. We believe this period of time coincides with the period of time where Immortal Cyborg Mecha Musk owned all words except Marklar.”
Much like “meta” and “metaverse”. Yet here we are.
I’m still annoyed that a company pushing an IM product was able to steal “slack” away from the Church of the Subgenius…
Apple is a trademarked brand name, but it’s far older than computers. Trademarks aren’t a blanket ownership of a word, they’re a disprovable presumption by a court that a trademark has a relationship, or may have soon, with s particular company in the minds of consumers.
Ironically, they had to initially agree not to do anything in the music industry when Apple, the computer company, was in the nascent stage. Because of Apple, the record company…
Copyright and patent laws need to die.
I don’t think patents themselves are inherently bad, but the way things have turned is atrocious.
There’s merit to inventing something that could be easily reproduced once seen and getting a little protection to get to sell it before a big corpo just duplicates it and undersell you to death.
But there are so many crazy patents out there, and especially on very broad ideas in the software world that is absolutely batshit insane.
Software patents probably shouldn’t exist unless they are super fucking specific and only for that exact implementationand method , but maybe not even then.
And trademarks should never be commonly used words.
Be like pharma and make all your trademarks gibberish like “abbloplabba.”
That’s like most software products/projects these days.
Did you just use the word, “patent?” Oof. That’s gonna cost ya.
I disagree. Its a good thing that a competing brand can’t legally make a duplicate product with the same packaging and trick people into buying it.
Copyright and trademark are different things. Trademark is for recognization of a brand, copyright is for intellectual property like books and software and music. However I agree with the above, copyright, patent, and trademark laws need to be drastically drawn back. They are being abused at every opportunity.
Why, and by how much?
This is too big to be explained by some weirdo in a comment section, I’d recommend researching how companies have used these laws and lobbied for their strengthening.
And for a broader view, look up “expropriation of the commons,” which this is an example of.
