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X Social Media is suing X, a social media company (www.theverge.com)
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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.

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[–] realitista@lemm.ee 193 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I really want X.org to get some massive compensation for Elon's theft of their logo.

[–] vidarh@lemmy.stad.social 84 points 2 years ago

Took 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.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 39 points 2 years ago

And give all the money to Wayland.

[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except their logo wasn't stolen.

X is using a standard Unicode symbol.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Which one?

[–] oscar@programming.dev 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

𝕏 (U+1D54F) and/or 𝕩 (U+1D569)

If you search blackboard bold or double-struck letters you can find more.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

So basically musk is so cheap (and toxic) he can't even convince any graphic designers to work for him.

Lol

[–] Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago

𝕏 is a Unicode character known as "mathematical double-struck capital X."

Source

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Its probably still too different for that, but I am not against them trying of course.

[–] hh93@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Apple has successfully trademarked everything that remotely looks like an apple with a bite taken out - there's a good chance it'll work

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like how they make a deal with Apple Records in the 80s that allowed both companies to use similar logos so long as Apple Computers didn't sell music and Apple Records didn't sell computers.

Then when iTunes became Apple's #1 product in the 2000s Apple successfully defended itself in court claiming that digital downloads were just 1s and 0s, so Apple Computers never sold music.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Did it actually go to trial? The line I heard was that when developing the iPod/iTunes they simply had a budget item for "Settlement with Apple Records".

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

X.XXX

Whatever happened to all the buzz about the internet finally giving porn sites their own top-level domain.