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https://www.adobe.com/legal/permissions/trademarks.html

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[-] Mora@pawb.social 60 points 3 months ago

In case anyone does not know: when a brand name becomes the generic term for a product or action, courts and trademark offices may determine the mark has become “genericized.” If that happens the owner may lose exclusive rights and the mark can enter the public domain.

See Zipper, Heroin, Escalator, Yo-Yo, etc.

So if you are anti-capitalist, you should photoshop with Gimp, google with duckduckgo and so on.

[-] GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 months ago

See also: Band-aid, Airfryer, Kerosene, Aspirin, Dry Ice, Laundromat, Linoleum, Thermos, Trampoline, Super Glue, Chap Stick

[-] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 months ago

Fun fact: Aspirin and Heroin lost their trademark status in a different way than genericization. Those trademarks were ended because the winning countries in World War I forced the German company Bayer to give them up, as part of the reparations in the Treaty of Versailles.

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

When the US entered WW1 in 1917, the local branch of Bayer was seized and sold to another company, including the brand names "Aspirin" and "Heroin". It took until 1994 when Bayer bought the brand "Aspirin" back in the US.

[-] Metostopholes@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

Also Klaxon.

[-] groet@feddit.org 8 points 3 months ago

We are looooong past the point where "to google something" has been genericized. But nobody is brave enough to risk being sued by google.

The courts will not just declare a trademark to be generic. Someone has to release a product under that name, be sued by the trademark owner and then argue the trademark should be void because it is generic.

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lego, at least in Germany, is pushing strong against the use of Lego-bricks (Legosteine) in favour of building blocks (Klemmbausteine, "clamp-on bricks").

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 months ago

counterpoint, language evolves over time and if the majority of people decide that these are proper words then so be it

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 22 points 3 months ago

This image was photoshopped with GIMP.

[-] RobotFK@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

*This image was photoshopped by a GIMP

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

This why trademarks are not nouns.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

This is literally about whether the word can be trademarked, not about whether it’s a real word or not. You should not speak on language until you have a basic grasp on how to even read one.

[-] warbond@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

I thought it was about how Adobe should fuck off

[-] wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Adobe rep, is that you?

[-] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Adobe®️ Photoshop®️ is shit.

[-] somegeek@programming.dev 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The image was Adobe® photoshopped

[-] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

I'll start caring about Adobe's trademarks when they stop being assholes with subscription termination fees, and also stop using subscriptions altogether. But I'll still use GIMP because I also hate Microsoft and Photoshop doesn't run on Linux anyway.

[-] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Pretty much industry standard.

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