Spring Jo 🥚  🍀May 3, 2024
fuck "intellectual property".
Show threadSpring Jo 🥚  🍀May 3, 2024

genuinely, apple using law firms to strongarm people into not using their logo or name "without permission" is putting corporations over people, over the expression of art and speech itself, that they can then dictate their entire likelihood

corporations are not people, corporations exist in a society, and they should not get to say how they should be perceived, as in every case it'll be 1k dedicated workers trying to clean that image, against single persons trying to poke that image, and then getting legally strongarmed for doing so

Show threadSpring Jo 🥚  🍀May 3, 2024
this is part of why the legal system is so broken btw, and why it does not represent a formalised system of rules for society; it is impenetrable by any average participant, complicated enough to require dedicated expertise, all of which makes the average citizen defenceless against large corporations "leveraging" the "law" like this
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@ShadowJonathan the fact that a sufficiently large corporation can just 'claim' a dictionary word kinda bothers me tbh

like, you just can't use "apple" for tech related things anymore
May 3, 2024 at 10:19amWeb