Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”
Uh, what? There’s gotta be some copyright issues with doing this…
How? He’s owned “X” for decades. It was the name of his first company. Dude is obsessed with calling everything X.
I think he means the artwork for the letter since the font is commercially available?
US copyright law doesn’t allow for protection of something like that. A dingbat, yes, but if it’s very plainly recognizable as an X then the exact shape and output of that typeface isn’t protectable. You can even print out a font, scan it, and create a new copycat font from it. The only thing you can’t do is reproduce the actual typeface file itself, which is fundamentally a single copyrighted piece of software. Some other countries allow more protection on the shapes of individual letters, but I don’t think you’d ever win a case anywhere on such a simple geometric shape as this X.
The current logo is a copy of the one from XOrg Foundation.
Not really; the XOrg logo is clearly designed in two parts, with a break between the two sections. It’s absolutely reminiscent of it, though, just different enough that you can’t really call it a copy.
Funny that he doesn’t own x.com
That’s just privacy protection. I own a few domains, and none of the whois information points to me personally.
Unless it’s since changed hands again, he did actually buy the domain back from PayPal ~6 years ago: https://www.techspot.com/news/70077-elon-musk-buys-back-xcom-paypal.html
It’s why x.com currently redirects to twitter.
What about xorg? https://x.org/
I mean, a functional company would have made it a legit co tests with terms/Conditions so that they owned every submission or at least the winner.
Musk probably just sent the tweet and picked a winner, so yeah, they may not own it and if they start using it the creator may be able to sue.