Twitter to Trademark the Word "Tweet" »
Posted By IsraGeek 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyBut third-party developers can still feel free to use it as long as it's used in a reputable manner. What's less okay is using the word "Twitter" and copying the design.
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calitennflo5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Tweet- herbrew / time's hold of wisdom of two "emotionally intelligent" to the correct. How we patent or copy-right a word...is beyond me...as words are just a solo mnization of the tone. (alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation/
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/solemnise
This is how we sing songs and sing prayers to our God...who knows the hidden ones. -
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blainegarrett5 months, 2 weeks ago
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I'm not a legal expert, but copyrights essentially say you invented the word where as trademarks are more about uses and processes. So, I am betting the trademark is something like :
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"Use of the word 'tweet' as a verb to express the action of electronically submitting a short bit of text to a service that may reveal this text publicly or privately to people watching your feed of messages."
You can't sue children every time they since a song about birds tweeting ;)
For the most part these sorts of trademarks are to protect the image of the service, so that some Porn Director can't make a movie "****ter" and then make lude depictions of "tweeting" in there. With a trademark in place, the movie company can be sued. And as they mention in the article, to nix confusion among similar products.
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samj6n4 months ago
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Looks like they were too late - the "tweet" trademark had already flown the coop:
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Twitter's "Tweet" Trademark Torpedoed
http://samj.net/2009/08/twitters-tweet-trademark-t...
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