Apple, the company, wants rights to the image of apples, the fruit, in Switzerland—one of dozens of countries where it’s flexing its legal muscles.
  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    “It’s just sensationalist journalism, the fact that they made the request to get this is irrelevant, it’s not like it would ever actually work…”

    Apple has made similar requests to dozens of IP authorities around the world, with varying degrees of success. Authorities in Japan, Turkey, Israel, and Armenia have acquiesced.

    Well, fuck me. This is the most ridiculous shit I’ve read all day. There really needs to be some major reforms made to trademark and copyright law, this is absolutely stupid. In my opinion, terms that existed in common speech before the company in question popularized them should simply be immune to trademark / copyright, and the fact that that isn’t the case is utterly baffling.

    • wjrii@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      I mean, I’m okay with barring a company in the technology space from having a blatantly apple-themed name, or using a logo that largely consists of a monochrome or rainbow themed fruit with a lens-shaped leaf. There’s clearly abuses and bad actors trying to pass of their work as being related to or even confused with companies offering goods and services that people actually want, but there’s got to be some rationality, and any ambiguities should be construed against the assholes who named their company after a fruit.