“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

weinzierl•about 1 hour 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 to it. Also there was a little outcry that the original artist just received the royalty free platform usual ridiculously small one time payment.

EDIT: The one I remember is the second one in the timeline image from the following (unfortunately ad infested) article, so apparently it was not the first one they had.

https://www.afaqs.com/news/digital/has-musk-gone-too-far-wit...

nolok•about 1 hour 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.

bsoqk•about 1 hour ago

Not all outcries have to be entertained.

blfr•about 1 hour 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•about 1 hour ago

I stopped going. Between the spam and the racist unmoderated AI slop cannon that is discovery there, what's the point

solarkraft•about 1 hour ago

I don’t even open twitter/x links anymore because the page is so unusable.

shevy-java•about 1 hour ago

Same here. There is always the "log in" nagging pop-up. But I will never log in again to the right-arm-gesture guy, so this is just time wasted for me.

We could need some decentralized way to share "tweets" though. Not linked to greedy billionaires.

MatthewWilkes•about 1 hour 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.

Animats•22 minutes ago

Trademarks are use it or lose it. OLDSMOBILE, for example, is a cancelled General Motors trademark for automobiles.[1] No cars sold, no trademark.

mrweasel•11 minutes ago

I can't figure out if renaming Twitter to X is the stupidest branding decision I've ever encountered or if it's bloody brilliant.

Every time Danish media talks about X, they say "The social media X". So X in itself is completely unrecognizable, you actively have to mention that you're talking about the social media platform. That's is however also rather genius, because now the connection between X and "social media" is strengthened every time it's mentioned.

lexicality•6 minutes ago

It's stupid. Every normal (ie not terminally online) person I speak to calls it twitter and is confused if I call it X. For some reason most of them think an "x post" is on instagram too. I guess because influencers call crossposting that?

Rygian•about 1 hour 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.

throw3212•about 1 hour ago

Twitter has become a racists hangout place

shevy-java•about 1 hour ago

A small, but nonetheless strategically important, defeat for the billionaire Elon "my right arm constantly twitches into a straight arm" musky Musk.

“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

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