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Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name

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Re: Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name

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Post by skinnymuch »

benatkin wrote: post #76
UweSchmidt wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is absolutely not clear. How does someone who has @apple and posts pictures of apples infringe on Apple, Inc's trademark?

I didn't say that they would be infringing on Apple, Inc's trademark and I don't think that. I only think that in disputed ownership, based on instagram's purpose of providing a communication platform, the rightful owner would be Apple, Inc, not someone who happened to register it first. And they have a way of determining who the rightful owner , to them, is. Clearly the definition of rightful owner isn't universal,…

Do you think people don’t understand why Instagram is doing this? We know why a [powerful] entity would help another powerful entity. We’re not happy about it. Why would we be okay with the process of determining being of such sheer elitism?

Re: Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name

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Post by lucozade »

littlestymaar wrote: post #125
jdsully wrote: post #116

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Isn't the whole premise of royalty that we are explicitly not equal?

But as far as I know, US citizens[1] don't recognize sovereignty of the British Crown since 1776… In that particular days, they even ratified a text saying “that all men are created equal”. [1] (and Instagram is owned byt a majority of American citizens)

> US citizens[1] don't recognize sovereignty of the British Crown

While that is clearly true, a surprising number of US citizens do, in my experience, recognize the celebrity of British royals.

The number of times I've been asked about Prince William's children is, quite frankly, astonishing. To such an extent that I even Googled their names so I did't appear too much like I couldn't give a crap.

> they even ratified a text saying “that all men are created equal”.

Right, but those Founding Fathers were pretty good at words. They were very careful to not say that everyone is equal. Largely because most of them didn't actually believe that. What they were most concerned about was someone not lording it over them. They were entirely relaxed about lording it over others, for example.

Re: Prince Harry and Meghan took my Instagram name

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Post by jdsully »

littlestymaar wrote: post #125
jdsully wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't the whole premise of royalty that we are explicitly not equal?

But as far as I know, US citizens[1] don't recognize sovereignty of the British Crown since 1776… In that particular days, they even ratified a text saying “that all men are created equal”. [1] (and Instagram is owned byt a majority of American citizens)

The story is about a UK royal taking the handle of another UK citizen. Instagram must recognize the sovereignty of the UK crown while doing business in the UK.
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