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 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.
I suppose it also means that if XSM lose the case because X is too generic, anyone can then set up a rival social media company also called X.
They can probably use the same logo too as it’s just Unicode.
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.
I really want X.org to get some massive compensation for Elon’s theft of their logo.
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.
Sorry who is suing who now?
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.
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Shaun!
ROFL
I love that episode though!
ex-X formerly Twitter.
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 :-)
X used to be an ad agency before Musk scared off all their advertisers and turned it into a subscription bullshit delivery service
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People hate the truth.
so what?
