X Social Media is suing X, a social media company
X Social Media is suing X, a social media company
X Social Media alleges that Musk’s X confuses potential customers.
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.
225I'm just amazed that it turns out there's actually 2 people who think this is a good name for a social media website.
96There is a good chance that there are A-W, Y and Z social media companies too. Some may be legit (eg. marketing on existing social media platforms), and others more for trademark squatting.
29There aren't. The first company is an ad agency that specializes in social media.
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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.
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I really want X.org to get some massive compensation for Elon's theft of their logo.
207Took this in London the other day.
It's too common a symbol for X.org to have much of a shot because they're not competitors. This "X Social Media" might have a stronger claim if they've actually used and defended a trademark specifically in the social space.
96And give all the money to Wayland.
45X.org develops Wayland
18
Whatever happened to all the buzz about the internet finally giving porn sites their own top-level domain.
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That lawsuit simply says : "acquire me, acquire me, O Holy Musk, acquire me..."
98Which 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.
32I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing this as someone praying for a check.
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72With Musk's fetish for all things "X", now may be the time to start squatting trademarks.
65This is the best summary I could come up with:
It was bound to happen eventually: a company has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Elon Musk’s X Corp. over its renaming of Twitter (via Reuters).
The company in question is X Social Media LLC, an ad agency from Florida that alleges X Corp. is guilty of violating Florida common law because of “unfair competition and trademark and service mark infringement,” as well as the state’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
X Social Media (hereafter referred to as XSM to make this article easier to write) writes in the complaint that it has used its registered trademark, “X SOCIALMEDIA,” continuously since 2016.
XSM claims it has “already suffered loss in revenue that correlates with X Corp.’s rebrand and use of the mark ‘X.’”
It’s unclear how strong X Social Media’s case will ultimately be.
Law professor Alexandra Roberts told The Verge earlier this year that the “crowded field” of “X” trademarks could make it hard for any individual X-branded service to enforce a claim against another — whether that’s Musk’s X or a company like X Social Media.
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49@rikudou@lemmings.world -1% saved on the TLDR bot, first time i've seen that output lol
22Well, that's a new one for me as well. I was wondering whether it can happen somehow.
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fwiw, the bot mangled some text around The Verge with some nbsp and that's what makes up the -1%, the text is otherwise identical
19Jesus, Bot. You're a damned failure.
7Bot is awesome. It has saved me from many cookie popups and ads.
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What the bot added more words than it removed? BAD BOT, BAD!
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Sorry who is suing who now?
39X is suing X. X is a social media company, and so is X. I hope that clears things up!
79Never mix up X corp with X.org
16So the people using Twitter are suing Twitter?
2Former Twitter is just called X, but the other company is X Social Media.
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Technically they are not exactly on the same field which could allow using similar trademarks. But on the other hand in this case X's use of X could be reasonably argued to be very confusing for customers and therefore violating X's trademark.
24Downvote 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.
24What do you mean this isn't a real show? Am I getting paid real money?
4ROFL
I love that episode though!
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Someone needed to press the X on the X.
20Shaun!
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Does this joke never end?
18If we are lucky, it'll end with Musk's bankruptcy.
11We may genuinely never hear the end of it
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ex-X formerly Twitter.
9The article says it is "an ad agency".
Makes me curious: why are they calling themselves "Social Media"?
8I'd wager their focus is advertising ON social media.
23Hmmmm... seems they don't want to work on X-twitter anymore :-)
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Probably because Social Media is their ad platform.
5X used to be an ad agency before Musk scared off all their advertisers and turned it into a subscription bullshit delivery service
3Because they advertise on social media.
2Doesn't all corpo social media make their money through ads? I think I remember Zuccerbot responding "we sell advertising" when the American politicians asked him what Facebook actually does.
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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.
-3People hate the truth.
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so what?
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