Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
X Social Media is suing X, a social media company::Elon Musk’s X is being sued by a Florida company called X Social Media for alleged unfair competition and trademark violations that it says have resulted in lost revenue.
I really want X.org to get some massive compensation for Elon’s theft of their logo.
And give all the money to Wayland.
X.org develops Wayland
Except their logo wasn’t stolen.
X is using a standard Unicode symbol.
Is something like a unicode symbol even valid as a trademark?
Its probably still too different for that, but I am not against them trying of coirse.
Apple has successfully trademarked everything that remotely looks like an apple with a bite taken out - there’s a good chance it’ll work
X.XXX
Whatever happened to all the buzz about the internet finally giving porn sites their own top-level domain.
That lawsuit simply says : “acquire me, acquire me, O Holy Musk, acquire me…”
Which is good in my opinion.
Ol’ Musky just went “I want Twitter to be named X” and hoped reality would shape to his thoughts.
And now, some random person who made a shitty shell company for a few hundred bucks gets to get a couple mil because baby Elong Muskrat didn’t bother to do his homework.
I’m glad I’m not the only one seeing this as someone praying for a check.
With Musk’s fetish for all things “X”, now may be the time to start squatting trademarks.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It was bound to happen eventually: a company has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Elon Musk’s X Corp. over its renaming of Twitter (via Reuters).
The company in question is X Social Media LLC, an ad agency from Florida that alleges X Corp. is guilty of violating Florida common law because of “unfair competition and trademark and service mark infringement,” as well as the state’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
X Social Media (hereafter referred to as XSM to make this article easier to write) writes in the complaint that it has used its registered trademark, “X SOCIALMEDIA,” continuously since 2016.
XSM claims it has “already suffered loss in revenue that correlates with X Corp.’s rebrand and use of the mark ‘X.’”
It’s unclear how strong X Social Media’s case will ultimately be.
Law professor Alexandra Roberts told The Verge earlier this year that the “crowded field” of “X” trademarks could make it hard for any individual X-branded service to enforce a claim against another — whether that’s Musk’s X or a company like X Social Media.
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Bot dropping the ball big time.
You have to applaud the fact the bot did correctly report a negative savings and did not show us whatever the bot equivalent is of a seg fault.
@rikudou@lemmings.world -1% saved on the TLDR bot, first time i’ve seen that output lol
Well, that’s a new one for me as well. I was wandering whether it can happen somehow.
fwiw, the bot mangled some text around The Verge with some nbsp and that’s what makes up the -1%, the text is otherwise identical
Jesus, Bot. You’re a damned failure.
Bot is awesome. It has saved me from many cookie popups and ads.
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Sorry who is suing who now?
X is suing X. X is a social media company, and so is X. I hope that clears things up!
Well then, I really hope X wins.
Never mix up X corp with X.org
Got it! At first I thought it was X suing X, but no its X suing X!
Reminds me of the time my Ex met an Ex with their Ex. Told me never to worry about it for some X reason, but I dont remember now.
So the people using Twitter are suing Twitter?
Former Twitter is just called X, but the other company is X Social Media.
Downvote Musk spam.
The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the headlines every day. Don’t be a useful idiot.
Technically they are not exactly on the same field which could allow using similar trademarks. But on the other hand in this case X’s use of X could be reasonably argued to be very confusing for customers and therefore violating X’s trademark.
What do you mean this isn’t a real show? Am I getting paid real money?
ROFL
Someone needed to press the X on the X.
Shaun!
Does this joke never end?
If we are lucky, it’ll end with Musk’s bankruptcy.
We may genuinely never hear the end of it
People hate the truth.
The article says it is “an ad agency”.
Makes me curious: why are they calling themselves “Social Media”?
I’d wager their focus is advertising ON social media.
Hmmmm… seems they don’t want to work on X-twitter anymore :-)
Probably because Social Media is their ad platform.
X used to be an ad agency before Musk scared off all their advertisers and turned it into a subscription bullshit delivery service
Because they advertise on social media.
Doesn’t all corpo social media make their money through ads? I think I remember Zuccerbot responding “we sell advertising” when the American politicians asked him what Facebook actually does.
ex-X formerly Twitter.
so what?
ArghZombies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I like the fact that the article had to refer to the non-Musk site as XSM instead of its full name of ‘X Social Media’ because it would just make the article too confusing to use the proper name.
That perfectly illustrates the point.
jonne@infosec.pub 1 year ago
I’m just amazed that it turns out there’s actually 2 people who think this is a good name for a social media website.
jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
There is a good chance that there is A-W, Y and Z social media companies too. Some may be legit (eg. marketing on existing social media platforms), and others more for trademark squatting.
seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
There aren’t. The first company is an ad agency that specializes in social media.
kartonrealista@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So is apple. Just because it’s generic doesn’t mean it’s not protected by trademark law. Trademarks are also first come first serve, exclusive to a given industry (so you could call your company Apple or X, but it better be not in a business where it’s already trademarked). They’re also use it or lose it, and you basically have to sue others using it if you want to keep it.
Obviously the logo isn’t just the character X, it’s a character X in particular font. If they used the same one they would be violating their trademark.