Re:Instagram insists littergram app is renamed
by cowsandmilk on Friday April 29, 2016 @09:32AM
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(a) it is trademark law
(b) trademarks are namespaced, both by business and geography. As a quick example, different Otto pizza chains ran peacefully in NYC and in Portland, ME. There only was an issue when they both tried to expand to Boston at the same time.
(c) missing vowels has nothing to do with collisions. I cannot create a company called flicker that hosts photos. I also cannot create a social network called facbook. Present or missing vowels do not make a difference. Missing vowels started with getting a web address, then became a fad.
Re:Instagram insists littergram app is renamed
by kagamine on Friday April 29, 2016 @09:32AM
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Companies should also be named according to type, so publicly listed companies should use camel-case and private companies dashes, faceBook and face-book could co-exist. _FACEBOOK_ too, they're a gloabal insustry. /s
If you or I put up a banner "littergram kitchen" inside of our kitchen and no one knows about it but friends and residents.. there's no problem.
Hell if "littergram" becomes used by a few dozen people, no problem. Enter the same marketplace as "instagram" and voila, namespace collision. (Well almost, littergram != instagram but you see what I mean).
I wonder what the world would be like if copyrights used proper namespaces? Maybe we there would be a dearth of companies missing vowels in their title..