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Re: Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand

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Next, Greece will charge Amazonas royalties for using their brand, since the Amazons were ancient Greek myths.

If Greece starts doing this, they can levy a tax on most things in the Western world!

Well yes but it cuts both ways. "Greece" (Ελλάδα - Hellada) is not a "Greek" (Ελληνικά - Hellonika) word. Sorry if I've screwed up the transliteration, its all Greek to me!

Whenever a Έλληνας (Hellonas - I think) uses the term Greek or other Anglicised word then we (whoever we are) could sue right back!

Modern Greek is just as close to old or classical Greek (and that's a PHD discussion) as modern English to German or Dutch (and that's another diss.) Throw in borrow words, pidgins, creoles and that and it gets complicated very quickly.

I won't deny that say, ichthphi ... (OK I searched, I can say it but not spell it) ... Ichthyophthirius is Greek derived and possibly one of the finest tongue-twisters known to man, casually thrashing physalis and the like. Closer to home, politics and other words derived from Greek (mostly an old version) are more familiar examples.

Language is always a tricksy thing. When I was a child I studied Latin, French, German and English. All to a greater or lesser extent. Now I'm 50+, I actually understand some of the interplay between them. That doesn't mean that I can speak German (bit sad - I lived in West Germany for some years) but I do understand why Wegburg and Waybury look suspiciously similar.

Nearly all languages these days are an amalgam. English is famous for "stealing" words but it isn't alone, by any means. Welsh borrows mercilessly from English for obvious reasons. However, what all languages have is some sort of cultural independence, be it accent, words, diacritics, alphabet, pronunciation or even sheer bloody mindedness.

Re: Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand

#52
post #5

This is like when city of Batman in Turkey requested royalties from Warner Bros for using the name Batman. Also, it's like when the country Iceland suing Iceland supermarkets chain, which is an ongoing dispute.

I think the Apache name is also an ongoing dispute by the Apache nation (the actual people) vs the Apache Software Foundation.

Has the Apache Nation had a dispute with the ASF? Or just some activism group?

Not that it matters, really. The all-girls' Catholic school, Ursuline Academy of New Orleans, has a sorority system based on year of graduation. The classes/sororities were called Skips (Skipperettes), Macs (Merry Macs), Sioux, and Leps (Leprechauns). The school sought, and received, permission from the Sioux Nation to use the Sioux name. Despite this, after Black Lives Matter happened there was a nationwide reexamination of whiteness's impact on our culture, particularly with regard to cultural appropriation, and the decision was made to change the name of the Sioux class to Phoenixes (or Nix for short). So the Apache Software Foundation probably won't be named such for much longer.

Re: Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand

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It was a political move to shame Bezos into donating money to the state using some reasoning that would make headlines (like this one) and spread the awareness of the tactic.

Bezos, though, was smarter and did donated the money, but to the neighbor state of Pará (which also has the Amazon forest in its territory). So the public image blackmailing worked in a way, but the governor who did it did not get the money.

Re: Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand

#55

Next, Greece will charge Amazonas royalties for using their brand, since the Amazons were ancient Greek myths.

Also India should own 50% of everyone's data as they invented the zero.

They also invented the numbers and numbering systems in use so that should be way higher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_s...

Re: Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand

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post #54

It was a political move to shame Bezos into donating money to the state using some reasoning that would make headlines (like this one) and spread the awareness of the tactic. Bezos, though, was smarter and did donated the money, but to the neighbor state of Pará (which also has the Amazon forest in its territory). So the public image blackmailing worked in a way, but the governor who did it did not get the money.

It’d be like New York suing someone with a business by the name of Nova Iorque”

Or some gal selling “Eu ♡ NI!” stickers.

Re: Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand

#59
post #48

My last name is "Grec", which is how you spell "Greek" in French. Every Greek yogourt container in Canada (and France) has my name plastered all over it - surely I deserve some cash!

Slightly OT, but do you have Greek ancestry? It would be interesting if your last name was "Greek" in French because that was your family's distinguishing factor a long time ago.
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