Cy on Nostr: Trademarks have ruined us. Do you have any idea how many commercial jingles I have ...
Trademarks have ruined us. Do you have any idea how many commercial jingles I have stuck in my head? How many of my stories are unsellable because they trained my imagination only to imagine their intellectual property? Have you seen the online art world, where artists are deluded into banning people for making edits of their work?
You must be old enough to remember when cardboard boxes used to be plain. How many independent family restaurants have gotten replaced by franchises? They can control our minds, if they can control their brands! All advertising depends on trademarks being restricted. They get something to be common usage by the public, and then when you go to make it public domain the judge laughs in your face. Now Hasbro owns us mind, body and soul. Forever.
I'm not disagreeing with you, just want to emphasize just what a dire price we've paid to protect trademarks.
CC: MarjorieR (nprofile…mjap)
You must be old enough to remember when cardboard boxes used to be plain. How many independent family restaurants have gotten replaced by franchises? They can control our minds, if they can control their brands! All advertising depends on trademarks being restricted. They get something to be common usage by the public, and then when you go to make it public domain the judge laughs in your face. Now Hasbro owns us mind, body and soul. Forever.
I'm not disagreeing with you, just want to emphasize just what a dire price we've paid to protect trademarks.
CC: MarjorieR (nprofile…mjap)