Probably not many do remember, but before this logo Twitter had a different bird logo until the company was already quite big.<p>If I remember correctly this logo was allegedly bought from a royalty free image platform and Twitter had no exclusive rights to it. Also there was a little outcry that the original artist just received the royalty free platform usual ridiculously small one time payment.<p>EDIT: The one I remember is the second one in the timeline image from the following article, so apparently it was not even the first one they had.<p><a href="https://www.afaqs.com/news/digital/has-musk-gone-too-far-with-twitter-rebrand" rel="nofollow">https://www.afaqs.com/news/digital/has-musk-gone-too-far-wit...</a>
> Also there was a little outcry that the original artist just received the royalty free platform usual ridiculously small one time payment.<p>I mean, if I tell you I'm to sell something to you for 5 dollars and you will be allowed to do this or that with it, and you give me the 5 dollars and then do this or that, it's a bit ridiculous to then have an "outcry" that you were successfull at doing this or that so you owe me more.<p>Not trying to offend but artists willing to make bird logo for cheap are a dime a dozen, which is why those site exists in the first place, and they didn't care about which one exactly which is why they went on that site to buy it; it's ot like there was any vile or unfair action being done there.
Is it accurate to describe this as the public domain? I would expect that the bird logo still enjoys copyright protection, independent from its status as a trademark.
The core reason to enforce trademarks is not to fluff the corporation that holds it but to let the public be confident in the name. So the trademark should hold for as long as a reasonable person can be confused by the new Twitter regardless of people's dislike towards Elon.<p>I may be biased because I still go to Twitter via twitter.com.
Twitter has become a racists hangout place
Decision from the judge "Issuance of the injunction precluding Bluebird's use of the Twitter-formative marks is contingent on X Corp.'s posting of a $500,000 bond."<p>Both X Corp. and Bluebird have asked to go to court on Nov 2027.
A small, but nonetheless strategically important, defeat for the billionaire Elon "my right arm constantly twitches into a straight arm" musky Musk.