• Hyperreality@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If X is no longer twitter, how long till the copyright on the twitter brand expires?

    You can’t argue anyone would confuse a website called twitter with ‘X’.

    Maybe Zuckerberg could rebrand threads Twitter.

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      1 year ago

      Trademark not copyright. Copyright only applies to entire works like a song text or the code Twitter has produced. For example the song title alone is not copyrighted. A trademark realistically only expires when it gets contested in court.

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        1 year ago

        There’s a similar law where you must at least defend a trademark against misuse to keep hold of it. That was the reasoning behind this music video for Velcro:

        https://youtu.be/rRi8LptvFZY

        So, based on that, maybe they won’t lose it just by not using it. But if someone else tried to establish a Twitter product, they may lose the trademark if they don’t fight it.

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        I think there is, but AFAIK they can use it for something very minor and it still counts.