Trademarks refer to a specific class. So when you think of McDonald’s you probably think of a specific fast-food chain–but there are also McDonald’s hardware stores with no connection to that fast food chain.
Very widely used nickname.
I think he meant “trough”…
Yes, but even given that, it’s still going to be very difficult to trademark “X”. There are so many other Xs out there that even if you can carve out some domain of exclusivity, it’s going to be a very, very narrow domain.
Oh, and speaking of domains, there’s also Internet domains to consider. When “Twitter” was founded, it was easy enough to get the domain twitter.com. But does Musk seriously think he’s going to be able to get x.com? Or will he have to settle for something like xsocialmedia.com?
Maybe he’ll go for xxx…com
Um. Try clicking on that
He already has x.com. It was a domain he registered a long time ago. When he wanted to rename PayPal to X, he already had x.com.
Ah, this whole thing makes more sense, now. He’s been holding onto the domain, and looking for something, anything, to do with it.
That linky needs a condom
Um…you may want to break that link. I clicked on it thinking that maybe it’s not what I expected it to be but, alas, no it was exactly that.
Thank you
Gimme a little credit.
Thank you.
Elmo converting twitter into a loss-making trough of a business and then re-branding it X make me think of pig porn. A perfect metaphor for what’s going on.
word is, he bought x.com for 1 million dollars (last century) … and ever since then wanted to put his newest acquisition to use …
he wanted to change paypal’s name also to X, when everybody was already using the verb “I paypal you the money” … he was sent to greener pastures, then
There are currently over 900 existing trademarks for X.
Yes, if there were ever a public display of a person’s personality, this is it – a giant FU to the neighborhood. That building is on Market street, but far enough up the street that many of the surrounding buildings are residential, not offices. If it were anyone else, that sign would have been closed down after the first night. Frankly, I suspect large anonymous influxes of cash into several city officials’ bank accounts. I hope it blows up (figuratively) in all their faces.
I was idly speculating what kind of explosive (or other) weapon/device it would take to accurately destroy that sign from the building across the street, without any collateral damage. Just idly, mind you. I don’t live anywhere around there, so it doesn’t affect me personally.
An anti-hate speech campaign group has accused Elon Musk’s X Corp of intimidation after the owner of the rebranded social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, threatened legal action over the organisation’s research into hate speech on the platform.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has regularly conducted research into the platform’s content since it was bought last year by Musk and has produced work claiming publication of hateful material on the site has risen since the $44bn (£34.2bn) deal was completed.
Musk’s legal representative has written to CCDH and its chief executive, Imran Ahmed, accusing the organisation of posting articles making “inflammatory, outrageous, and false or misleading assertions about Twitter”.
The letter to CCDH also threatens legal action, stating that X is considering whether what it describes as CCDH’s “false and misleading claims” are actionable under the Lanham Act, a piece of US legislation that covers trademark law. It adds: “Please be advised that Twitter will employ any and all legal tools at its disposal to prevent false or misleading claims from harming its users, platform, or business.”
But I thought Elon believes in freedom of speech…
I thought California had anti-SLAPP laws.
But Twitter could possibly forum shop someplace more friendly to it, like maybe Texas.
Funny how that place keeps coming up in these contexts.
Lanham Act is federal.