Instagram ass----- don't like app with name similar to theirs

In article , Tony Cooper
wrote:

I don't see how you can say the trademarking of the word "Facebook" in
any limits you to using that word. You want to put up a website
containing photographs of your family and call it a facebook? Do it.

do that and plan on getting a takedown notice, once facebook finds out.

It's only when you infringe on the owners of the trademark's
proprietary interest that it's a problem. You can't, for example, put
up a website that replicates what Facebook does and call that
"Facebook".

obviously, and what you call the site doesn't matter.

You are prone to making conflicting statements in the same post.

there are no conflicting statements.

If Facebook would object to calling the site a facebook, then what the
site is called would matter.

two different issues, and you're too stupid to understand the
difference.

No. One issue: what the site is called.

no. two issues.

one what the site is called and the other what the site does.

if you make a facebook clone and call it tonyville.com, facebook is
going to send you a takedown.

Two conflicting statements.

nope.

In article ,
RichA wrote:

Did they ever try to sue Apple Records?

apple records sued apple, and more than once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

that's why one of the beep sounds with system 7 was called sosumi, aka
'so sue me', and apple's lawyers didn't even realize it.

In article ,
Whisky-dave wrote:


Is instagram a trademarked word.

yes, and facebook (who owns instagram) will go after you if you use
anything that's similar.

On 2016-04-28 10:11, Tony Cooper wrote:

I do wonder how you see the word "facebook" as an ordinary word,
though. What was the use/meaning of "facebook" before there was
"Facebook®"?

The face book / facebook was a book given to university profs at the
start of each semester so they could identify the students in their
class. That is where "Facebook" comes from: the notion to make an
electronic edition of same and to make it freely accessible to all
students. Then it went ...

So "facebook" is a portmanteau word in common use in American U's, (at
least in the northeast).

Does that make it ordinary? Maybe not.

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