Indonesia should also get royalties for Java.
They should try.
Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand
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Re: Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand
#62Next, 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!
Including ChatGPT. I once asked it to choose a nickname and after a lot of attempting to block the request it said:
I'll choose the nickname "Athena" for ChatGPT. Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and strategic thinking, which reflects the purpose and functionality of ChatGPT as an AI language model designed to provide information and assistance.
Funny how it didn't mention Athena is also the goddess of war...
Re: Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand
#63It 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.
Only if New York was a poor state in a poor country and the gal selling stickers was one of the biggest company in the world.
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#64Re: Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’d be like New York suing someone with a business by the name of Nova Iorque” Or some gal selling “Eu ♡ NI!” stickers.
Only if New York was a poor state in a poor country and the gal selling stickers was one of the biggest company in the world.
Nah, either they have a legal leg to stand on or they don't.
Now if Jeff and Co. had an issue with someone starting a company called 'A Amazonia', they defo would have a leg to stand on.
Re: Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand
#66Brazilian here. Nobody takes this corrupt idiot seriously.
Re: Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 o…
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Anecdata, but for a native Russian speaker this is not a tongue twister at all. We borrowed quite a few letters for Cyrillic alphabet and have dedicated sounds for them. This word becomes a shorter "ихтиофтириус", which has a much nicer visual balance of vowels and consonants
Re: Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand
#68My 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.
The name originates in Poland (and I have a TON of distant family there). I know there are more than a few Grecs in France and around, so chances are there are some in Greece...
Re: Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand
#69This 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.
The Iceland v Iceland Foods debacle was at least a bit more understandable- the country wasn't particularly happy with the trademark, but took the matter to court after the food company "sought in 2016 to prevent various Icelandic producers from using the word ‘Iceland’ to describe their goods."
https://trademarklawyermagazine.com/the-cold-never-bothered-...
Re: Governor of Amazonas wants to charge Amazon royalties for use of the brand
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only if New York was a poor state in a poor country and the gal selling stickers was one of the biggest company in the world.
Nah, either they have a legal leg to stand on or they don't. Now if Jeff and Co. had an issue with someone starting a company called 'A Amazonia', they defo would have a leg to stand on.
My initial comment was precisely to point out that this is not about being legal or not at all. It is a sort of “public image blackmailing”.