Twitter Stole This Game's Name

[Hitori]

Thanks Elon

[mk11]

I wonder if Take-Two will contest that as a trademark infringement. The Take-Two trademark includes the field of commentary on computer games and I suspect there is some of that on twitter. And the XCOM Labs Inc. trademark includes advertising so that means no more advertising on Twitter (crossed-fingers).

[DasaKamov]

It's impossible to copyright a letter of the Roman Alphabet.

(Also, writing the sole letter "X" is not in anyway violating the "XCOM" trademark, since you're missing three additional letters). :b

[Nico]

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

It's impossible to copyright a letter of the Roman Alphabet.

(Also, writing the sole letter "X" is not in anyway violating the "XCOM" trademark, since you're missing three additional letters). :b

I think he is referring to the new website name, which is X.com

[burthole]

I hope they sue space boy to oblivion

[DasaKamov]

Originally posted by Nico:

new website name, which is X.com

While that's an amusing coincidence, ".com" is the most common url apellation in the entire world and is isn't remotely copyrightable. ;)

[Nico]

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

Originally posted by Nico:

new website name, which is X.com

While that's an amusing coincidence, ".com" is the most common url apellation in the entire world and is isn't remotely copyrightable. ;)

Sure, Musk bought X.com from paypal a while ago, so he totally owns it. It's probably just a small joke to talk about him stealing XCOM's name.

[burthole]

Originally posted by Nico:

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

While that's an amusing coincidence, ".com" is the most common url apellation in the entire world and is isn't remotely copyrightable. ;)

Sure, Musk bought X.com from paypal a while ago, so he totally owns it. It's probably just a small joke to talk about him stealing XCOM's name.

if anything it might bring a few more people into the game from random xcom searches

[mk11]

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

It's impossible to copyright a letter of the Roman Alphabet.

(Also, writing the sole letter "X" is not in anyway violating the "XCOM" trademark, since you're missing three additional letters). :b

Nothing to do with copyright, it is trademarks and there are lots of trademarks that are single letters. However, I was referring to X.COM.

Trademarks are held for specific purposes. He hasn't been using x.com so there would be no trademark infringement. If he now starts using it then there could be infringement, see the two cases with Apple.

A usage doesn't have to be identical to be a trademark infringement just possible to cause confusion in one of the fields the mark is trademarked.

However, given the cost of any litigation (although it could be in a cheaper place than the USA) I was a bit tongue in cheek. USA though does require to enforce trademarks or risk losing them (e.g. Hoover).

[Izlude]

Originally posted by Armadale:

I hope they sue space boy to oblivion

Not really possible as X with a dotcom address is not X-Com. Trying to argue it in a court would be a waste of money and they could get themselves in a ton of trouble for frivelous lawsuits.

[mk11]

Originally posted by Philogosten:

Originally posted by Armadale:

I hope they sue space boy to oblivion

Not really possible as X with a dotcom address is not X-Com. Trying to argue it in a court would be a waste of money and they could get themselves in a ton of trouble for frivelous lawsuits.

Which court would that be? Not all countries have the same practices.

Turn it on its head. Suppose x.com was an established address for a product X that provided a service. Would creating a product called XCOM that overlapped in its services be considered passing off?

[Izlude]

Originally posted by mk11:

Originally posted by Philogosten:

Not really possible as X with a dotcom address is not X-Com. Trying to argue it in a court would be a waste of money and they could get themselves in a ton of trouble for frivelous lawsuits.

Which court would that be? Not all countries have the same practices.

Turn it on its head. Suppose x.com was an established address for a product X that provided a service. Would creating a product called XCOM that overlapped in its services be considered passing off?

Well Firaxis is a American company so they would try to sue in America. Though there is not a single country on the planet thats copyright laws would be on the side of Firaxis here as "X-Com" and "X.Com" are very clearly not related. One is an X and then a Dotcom address for a social media site. The other is an alien themed video game named "X-Com" Firaxis at best could only hope their punishment for a frivelous lawsuit is only a few million dollars. So it would be financially beyond incompetent.

[mk11]

Originally posted by Philogosten:

Originally posted by mk11:

Which court would that be? Not all countries have the same practices.

Turn it on its head. Suppose x.com was an established address for a product X that provided a service. Would creating a product called XCOM that overlapped in its services be considered passing off?

Well Firaxis is a American company so they would try to sue in America. Though there is not a single country on the planet thats copyright laws would be on the side of Firaxis here as "X-Com" and "X.Com" are very clearly not related. One is an X and then a Dotcom address for a social media site. The other is an alien themed video game named "X-Com" Firaxis at best could only hope their punishment for a frivelous lawsuit is only a few million dollars. So it would be financially beyond incompetent.

The trademark is held by Take-Two not Firaxis so Firaxis is irrelevant. It is trademark not copyright so copyright laws are irrelevant. The XCOM trademark is not just restricted to the field of video games (and the one held by XCOM Labs Inc. is wider but with the fields from the existing Take-Two trademark excluded). Until the x.com address starts appearing in adds you can't say what trademark infringement might exist. An ad like "comment on your favourite video games at x.com" would be problematic.

[Zeonista]

Elon Musk is a member of Exalt, it is known.

[Duke Mills]

How on earth is a gamer discussion getting political? I swear politics are like a religious cult at this point.

[TheOrangeBox]

MElon is a reptile