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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by xani_ on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @02:05PM (#33084305)
That's a fair compromise. Original author owns the rights to a given piece of art in whole and trademark from title, so they can profit off their work and make next title without being mistaken for someone else.

Everyone else is free to do with IP, do remixes etc. and if they make something with original IP that is better than originals, so be it ,competition actually working.

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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies by noasaservice on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @03:16PM (#33085325)
To be fair, I am a huge proponent of most trademarks. (general shape, color, and such I'm not a fan of)

A trademark means if I buy AMD, I'm not getting "shitty rebrand of chip 10y old by jank fab". Or it means if I buy branded food, I know what I'm getting.

Trademarks are essential for the protection to know the goods you buy from a company are what you're expecting.

And that's why I'm realllllly curious when a whole bunch of big companies sue Amazon for allowing counterfeit co-mingling (or being charged $$$$$ for separate SKUs), relating to trademark dilution. This is straight up provable damage.

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