"Tweet" and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

(blog.ericgoldman.org)

39 points | by progval 1 hour ago

6 comments

  • weinzierl 6 minutes ago
    Probably not many do remember, but before this logo Twitter had a different bird logo until the company was already quite big.

    If I remember correctly this logo was allegedly bought from a royalty free image platform and Twitter had no exclusive rights ti it. Also there was a little outcry that the original artist just received the royalty free platform usual ridiculously small one time payment.

    • nolok 4 minutes ago
      > Also there was a little outcry that the original artist just received the royalty free platform usual ridiculously small one time payment.

      I mean, if I tell you I'm to sell something to you for 5 dollars and you will be allowed to do this or that with it, and you give me the 5 dollars and then do this or that, it's a bit ridiculous to then have an "outcry" that you were successfull at doing this or that so you owe me more.

      Not trying to offend but artists willing to make bird logo for cheap are a dime a dozen, which is why those site exists in the first place, and they didn't care about which one exactly which is why they went on that site to buy it; it's ot like there was any vile or unfair action being done there.

  • MatthewWilkes 22 minutes ago
    Is it accurate to describe this as the public domain? I would expect that the bird logo still enjoys copyright protection, independent from its status as a trademark.
  • blfr 24 minutes ago
    The core reason to enforce trademarks is not to fluff the corporation that holds it but to let the public be confident in the name. So the trademark should hold for as long as a reasonable person can be confused by the new Twitter regardless of people's dislike towards Elon.

    I may be biased because I still go to Twitter via twitter.com.

    • parl_match 10 minutes ago
      I stopped going. Between the spam and the racist unmoderated AI slop cannon that is discovery there, what's the point
      • solarkraft 8 minutes ago
        I don’t even open twitter/x links anymore because the page is so unusable.
  • throw3212 0 minutes ago
    Twitter has become a racists hangout place
  • Rygian 25 minutes ago
    Decision from the judge "Issuance of the injunction precluding Bluebird's use of the Twitter-formative marks is contingent on X Corp.'s posting of a $500,000 bond."

    Both X Corp. and Bluebird have asked to go to court on Nov 2027.

  • shevy-java 2 minutes ago
    A small, but nonetheless strategically important, defeat for the billionaire Elon "my right arm constantly twitches into a straight arm" musky Musk.