http://www.freemagenta.nl/
That's right. T-Mobile has made it official that they OWN a certain combination of colors of light.
I think I'm going to be sick. This world is going to hell.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/colourlovers...ht_magenta.jpg
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http://www.freemagenta.nl/
That's right. T-Mobile has made it official that they OWN a certain combination of colors of light.
I think I'm going to be sick. This world is going to hell.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/colourlovers...ht_magenta.jpg
They trademarked it. They did not claim to copyright or own it. Please read your own posts. Or link to sites which you in fact can read.
Oh dear... This should severely hamper my color pirating operations...
http://www.discountcandleshop.com/im...ns/magenta.jpg
This is all I have right now, but I plan to get more. I'll have a torrent of the stuff up later. I hope I can amass it all before they catch onto me and take it down...
http://servicemarks.blogspot.com/200...nta-blues.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
I apologize. My source is clearly insane. I've seen much proof of this in the past. It's moreso that they own that color in terms of a logo. Still bullshit.
Then again, there's plenty of legal language for a lawyer like yourself in this post, so maybe you can make better sense of it than my own source did.
EDIT:Magenta is their identity. Fair if this only applies to the mobile phone industry, I suppose. However, if this is universal, it's very silly.Quote:
"A trademark includes any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination, used, or intended to be used, in commerce to identify and distinguish the goods of one manufacturer or seller from goods manufactured or sold by others, and to indicate the source of the goods. In short, a trademark is a brand name."
The hysteria is coming from the misconception that T-Mobile is claiming that it owns a color. If it (or any company) was claiming that it had the copyright to color, you and everyone would be rightly up in arms because you wouldn't be able to use that color magenta. I am fairly certain that this is impossible because, for starters, T-Mobile did not create the color magenta.
T-Mobile's claim that it has a trademark on the color magenta may be overly broad, but really, the only reason you should give a crap is if you own a competing telecommunications company and you really, really want to put magenta in its logo. (This would make you, de facto, a rich gay dude.)
Think of a Coke can. I believe (though I have not checked) that Coke has registered marks for the color red it uses on cans and possibly the white script. Registered or not, if you brought a competing cola to market with similiar red cans and similar white script, Coke would probably sue you. This does not mean Coke owns red, white and script.
I've come to the conclusion that designers are very stupid and I should research claims sent to me by my designing peers.
Looks to me like designers are just waiting to fly off the handle and design a gang of shit that misses the point.
Okay, stupid.
I wouldn't go that far...it is certainly a significant issue for designers. Companies are probably entitled to a very specific shade of a color when it comes to trade/service mark protection (like "Dodger blue" instead of "blue), so the claim on "magenta" is alarming. Especially since magenta is one of the 4 base colors of print media.
But the extrapolation to "goodbye, magenta, thanks a lot T-Mobile" is wrong.
Yeah, but dude, it will only take like 10 other companies doing the same thing before that gets really stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
Trademark law exists mostly to protect consumers. When you see a magenta cell phone store/service center, you can think to yourself "hey, that's T-Mobile" and not shlocky second rate knockoff C-Mobile.
I mean, it's not like Verizon and Sprint are like "fuck, they got magenta, we can't keep up our market share." Magenta is really only worth anything to T-Mobile (to signal to consumers that they are T-Mobile) and some company trying to front as T-Mobile (to deceive consumers that they are T-Mobile).
Like I said, the reference to magenta is probably too broad, but this isn't a crazy new trademark right or anything.