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Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

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Re: Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

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Post by deadbunny Β»

pilsetnieks wrote: post #48
spread_love wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it changed ownership many times since 1999. > On July 5 2017, Musk repurchased the domain name X.com from PayPal They even took a little jab at him when it happened > "We are delighted to sell the domain x.com back to its previous owner"

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> On July 5 2017

2017 is not 1999

Re: Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

#62

Post by dclowd9901 Β»

dietrichepp wrote: post #10

This is for math. In Latex, you get these symbols with \mathbb{}. They are most commonly used to represent to represent number sets, like the set of all integers Z (from the German), set of all natural numbers N, set of complex numbers C, set of all real numbers R, rationals Q (for β€œquotient”), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for β€œfield”). This explains why many of the letters in thi…

Cause β€œX” is a cool letter. Just ask David X. Cohen.

Re: Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

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Post by mkl Β»

pilsetnieks wrote: post #48
spread_love wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it changed ownership many times since 1999. > On July 5 2017, Musk repurchased the domain name X.com from PayPal They even took a little jab at him when it happened > "We are delighted to sell the domain x.com back to its previous owner"

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I think you missed the point: the domain has not been in Musk's control that whole time, as I had thought. His company X.com had it, then PayPal got it when it was created in the merger of X.com and Confinity, and PayPal kept it after Musk left, but then Musk got it back.

Re: Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

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Post by samwillis Β»

tiborsaas wrote: post #58
samwillis wrote: post #12

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Absolutely. They can probably trade mark it for social media (unless someone already has), but are highly unlikely to be able to trademark it broadly, which clearly is the intention.

I don't see a problem with this, it's a generic character used in mathematics. If nobody trademarked it before, it shouldn't cause any issues. If using greek letters like Ξ» in brands is not a problem, then this should fly too. They could also apply for multiple trademarks with small additions if they launch a new product: π•β‚šβ‚α΅§

Trademarks are against a "class", these can be quite wide. They would clearly want to own that exact symbol for "Class 9: Computer and software products and electrical and scientific products."

Unicode already contains exactly it, it's a mathematical/scientific symbol, even if they did get the trademark in that category (which I doubt) they will never be able to enforce it. With trade marks, if you don't successfully protect them, you loose them.

Re: Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

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Post by spread_love Β»

pilsetnieks wrote: post #48
spread_love wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it changed ownership many times since 1999. > On July 5 2017, Musk repurchased the domain name X.com from PayPal They even took a little jab at him when it happened > "We are delighted to sell the domain x.com back to its previous owner"

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I'm delighted to let you know that you missed the point. It was a very short comment.

Re: Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

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Post by redeux Β»

tiborsaas wrote: post #58
samwillis wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely. They can probably trade mark it for social media (unless someone already has), but are highly unlikely to be able to trademark it broadly, which clearly is the intention.

I don't see a problem with this, it's a generic character used in mathematics. If nobody trademarked it before, it shouldn't cause any issues. If using greek letters like Ξ» in brands is not a problem, then this should fly too. They could also apply for multiple trademarks with small additions if they launch a new product: π•β‚šβ‚α΅§

I think this would seriously confuse his core audience, so I doubt that’s the intention. Then again, I think rebranding Twitter to X is a terrible idea, so what do I know.

Re: Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

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Post by papercrane Β»

Zambyte wrote: post #39
albybisy wrote: post #11

so it can't be copyrighted.

Logos never could be. You're thinking of trademark.

Some logos can be copyrighted. Most logos however don't meet the threshold of originality. The Copyright Office will reject copyrights for stylized letters (see IBM logo), or logos of simple geometric shapes. With the modern aesthetic for logos to be as simple as possible this means nearly all the logos you see are not copyrighted.

Re: Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

#69

Post by rsynnott Β»

phkahler wrote: post #29
isodev wrote: post #9

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The character is used by another famous piece of software for what, 40 years? https://x.org/wiki/

But X windows is dead or dying. Oh, so is Twitter?

Reports of X11's death have been greatly exaggerated as far as I can see; it's still clinging stubbornly on, and efforts to kill it have tended not to go well.
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