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[โ€“] onion@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I just wanna point out that what can and can't be done with a trademark is defined by law and not by the wishes of some corpo

[โ€“] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 9 months ago

Sure, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about a Corp that frames fair use as a subset of fair use, making allowances only when it's beneficial to them for marketing

For the most cut and dry example, they allow blog posts praising them... What about a blog post offering a nuanced criticism? What about a satiric post about them?

Those are both undeniably fair use, but by framing it as outside fair use, they're being shit heels