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An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)

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Re: An installation-art company called META (or Meta.is) is suing Meta (or meta.com)

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Post by mason55 »

jonah wrote: post #8

Back in the day I worked at MetaCreations née MetaTools[0]. We had a web browser plugin that rendered streaming, progressive, interactive 3D - well before WebGL et. al. It shipped with IE and was available for other browsers as well. The MetaStream logo[1][2][3] was surprisingly similar to the Meta one. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCreations [1] It was surprisingly hard to find a copy of the logo on image se…

Ahh… sorry for pirating Kai’s Power Tools and Ray Dream Studio when I was like 14!

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Post by mmaunder »

Reminds me of eToys vs eToy in the late 90s. Hacking groups targeted eToys and caused many late nights for the ops team. I joined eToys shortly after as a Perl dev and decided to nmap scan ToysRUs and eToys cybersecurity team was on a hair trigger after the eToy hacks. Someone literally came thumping down the hallway and walked straight into my office. I put my hands up and started apologizing profusely and they let it slide.

https://www.artforum.com/print/200003/etoys-vs-etoy-278

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Post by jordigg »

w-ll wrote: post #2

This site is just tried to fake a chrome update for me. Serving up malware. Viewing source their wordpress for sure has been hacked. Obfuscated JS at the bottom of every static js file. Must be something random that it targeted me. cant seam to make it trigger again.

I just dropped a message to the CEO via LinkedIn, hope they can check on it. Didn't pop-up for me, either adblock or just being enabled for a sample of the visitors.

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Post by DEveritt »

There's loads of companies out there with extremely similar names. It's hard to come up with something totally unique. I believe, legally, it just can't be identical to a name already registered in the same state. When I was trying to name my own business, it was amazing to see how many names were already taken just in my state. Not that it makes it right for Meta/Facebook to do whatever they want but any rebranding they chose would probably have stepped on someone's toes.

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Post by tfigment »

babyshake wrote: post #10

The term “metaverse” was first used in Neil Stevenson's 1982 novel Snow Crash. IANAL but it seems dubious to me that anyone besides Neil gets to claim dibs on the word "meta" as used in the context of VR.

1992 by the way. Seemed way to new when i read it in 90s to be 1982. Your point probably still stands.

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Post by kej »

babyshake wrote: post #10

The term “metaverse” was first used in Neil Stevenson's 1982 novel Snow Crash. IANAL but it seems dubious to me that anyone besides Neil gets to claim dibs on the word "meta" as used in the context of VR.

Trademarks are about protecting a mark used in commerce, not the first person to utter a word or phrase.

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Post by t_mann »

whoibrar wrote: post #4

I also occassionally mourn the death of the word Meta, It was such a beautiful and succinct word. Meta means about the thing itself. It's seeing the thing from a higher perspective instead of from within the thing, like being self-aware. Not to forget the words like Metadata, Meta-physics, Meta-analysis, Metameme. Long live Meta[adjective].

The word Alphabet didn't go away when Google renamed their parent company, and I'm confident that the word meta will also prove stronger than its SV appropriation.

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Post by jrockway »

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #9
willcipriano wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just realized now if I put meta-programming on my resume the HR drones are going to think I worked for Zuckerberg.

Doubtful

Yeah, I don't think these holding companies mean much to people inside or outside the company. No random person on the street knows what Alphabet or Meta is, they know Google and Facebook. I certainly don't put "Alphabet" on my resume. I worked there and I don't even know what it meant exactly.
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