Musk offers to buy Twitter

[mollyc]

 

[Eric]

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Interesting, did he actually buy it?

 

[mollyc]

Interesting, did he actually buy it?

i have no idea just saw the reddit post in my suggestions.

 

[dada_dave]

According to Elliot Higgins, it’s literally just the Unicode character:

Seems to be so:

Find all Unicode Characters from Hieroglyphs to Dingbats – Unicode Compart

U+1D54F is the unicode hex value of the character Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X. Char U+1D54F, Encodings, HTML Entitys:𝕏,𝕏,𝕏, UTF-8 (hex), UTF-16 (hex), UTF-32 (hex)

www.compart.com

So even beyond questions of who used it first, I’m not sure the specific use by Elon is actually trademark-able?

 

[Nycturne]

So, while there's all the trademark stuff here as well, the origin of the X is even more depressing: It's a unicode character. No design involved, just pick a unicode character, pick a font, put it on a background.

"Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X"

Find all Unicode Characters from Hieroglyphs to Dingbats – Unicode Compart

U+1D54F is the unicode hex value of the character Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X. Char U+1D54F, Encodings, HTML Entitys:𝕏,𝕏,𝕏, UTF-8 (hex), UTF-16 (hex), UTF-32 (hex)

www.compart.com

EDIT: I really should refresh the thread before replying. @dada_dave beat me to it.

 

[Yoused]

Hmm, I wonder,

Spoiler: what else might 'X' symbolize?

 

[Cmaier]

I was just about post this to specifically ask you about it from the position of a lawyer (I think we have a couple of others on here with legal training too?). As a non-lawyer it certainly looks infringing.

He’s just switched the arms back to front:

In black and white:



Also they don’t use it anymore but these are the Xerox logos over time:

in this case, the courts would likely apply the “likelihood of confusion” test. Would an ordinary consumer be likely to be confused as to the source of the product? It seems like a pretty good case for xorg, if they wanted to go for it.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

You guys are talking about the design genius who approved this turd.

Not only is it ass ugly but also has limited function as a truck.

I’ve never been a car guy but hear a lot of car people complain about the lack of classic and collectible designs for decades. This thing makes a 1994 Ford Escort look like a Rolls-Royce.

 

[mollyc]

here’s another reddit find. of course you never know how true these are.

 

[Eric]

here’s another reddit find. of course you never know how true these are.



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Sounds credible enough. If that were one of us little people we'd get squashed like a bug over this, must be nice to be a billionaire who simply takes what they want. Hopefully Zuckerberg will fight this if he is indeed the owner.

 

[mollyc]

Are we supposed to call it X now?? Because the url is still twitter.com. I tried x.com today and it's just "parked" by GoDaddy.

I'm really confused by this whole thing.

 

[Cmaier]

Looks like they also need to worry about Microsoft’s registered trademark on “x” for messaging:

Trademark Status & Document Retrieval

 

[Cmaier]

Are we supposed to call it X now?? Because the url is still twitter.com. I tried x.com today and it's just "parked" by GoDaddy.

I'm really confused by this whole thing.

X.com redirects to twitter.com for me. The change may still be propagating through the DNS system.

 

[Eric]

Are we supposed to call it X now?? Because the url is still twitter.com. I tried x.com today and it's just "parked" by GoDaddy.

I'm really confused by this whole thing.

I quit using it a long time ago so I haven't even bothered to look or open the app, from time to time I'll chase a link there in my browser but that's just the Twitter URL.

 

[mollyc]

X.com redirects to twitter.com for me. The change may still be propagating through the DNS system.

not on my phone or my computer, but good point about taking awhile to populate.

 

[Eric]

not on my phone or my computer, but good point about taking awhile to populate.

DNS usually propagates around the world within minutes but can take up to an hour, could be that it's so big that it may take longer though. It's common that it works for some but not for others until it's complete.

 

[Cmaier]

here’s another reddit find. of course you never know how true these are.

I can confirm this is also true. So Microsoft and Meta both have highly relevant trademarks.

Trademark Status & Document Retrieval

 

[Yoused]

Dad always told me, "never put all your X in one basket."

 

[mollyc]

Fujifilm also uses X (not sure about copyright type of stuff.

https://twitter.com/FujifilmUK/status/1683500918883467264?s=20

Apparently I don't know how to embed tweets (Xes?).

 

[Roller]

I hear all Musk’s exes are getting together and suing him for rekindling mental anguish.