PornHub owner MindGeek is threatening a kebab shop in NYC with trademark infringement::If you’ve been listening to the Vergecast you know the standard for trademark infringement is “likelihood of confusion,” and while it’s true the Hub is known for ⚫️🟠, something tells me the folks walking into Doner Haus aren’t confused about what’s on the menu. Full story in Chelsea News, a hyperlocal NYC news site, via Verge pal Alexandra Roberts.

  • Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    As a non-American, US intellectual property law feels absolutely ridiculous to me sometimes. It feels like it incentivizes all the wrong behaviours.

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      1 year ago

      It’s hard to balance but it prevents trademark squatters from existing like in the domain name space

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      1 year ago

      As a US Citizen I agree. We also let corporations lobby to make the rules have no relation to what they were set up for.

      Copyright for instance was supposed to allow people to use novel work in the open without getting copied for a short period of time before it became public domain. Now Copyright is nearly perpetual, it keeps getting extended when a certain mouse is close to losing their copyright.