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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by jrockway on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:53PM (#38034503)
Incidentally, the author of Kiki's Delivery Service mixed the two up and used the trademarked version instead of the generic one. When the anime was being made several years later, someone decided to look into it, and found that they did not actually have permission to use the trademark. But, the owner of the trademark agreed to let them use it, so they didn't have to change the name of the anime adaptation.

Meanwhile, I'm off to write a book about people who google xeroxing kleenex.

Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by Cthulhu_ on Friday October 27, 2023 @03:52AM (#38035817)
> But, the owner of the trademark agreed to let them use it, so they didn't have to change the name of the anime adaptation.

And got free advertising / product placement in the process!

Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by tapotatonumber9 on Friday October 27, 2023 @06:49AM (#38036903)
before or after?
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by Hamuko on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:59AM (#38038496)
Does the black cat also derive from Kuroneko?
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by tanjtanjtanj on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:07AM (#38038602)
You don't strictly need the permission of a trademark holder for their trademark to appear in your creative work. It is generally done, but not required.
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by kahirsch on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:57PM (#38040961)
It's in the title of the work, though, which may be different than appearing in the work, though. And it's in Japan, where the law may be different from US law.
Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by qmarchi on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:00PM (#38040993)
Depends on the country that you're presenting the creative work. Japan specifically is known to be harsh on trademark enforcement. It's fairly common that unless you enforce your trademark, you have an extremely high chance of losing exclusivity.