Comment on WWE wants to trademark the term 'Vice City'.

RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  On the other hand, Sky TV somehow managed to successfully sue Microsoft to force them to rename SkyDrive.

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  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    World Wildlife Fund successfully got WWF to switch to WWE. Now they have to blur out their own logo on old matches. It’s quite bizarre.

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    • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I always found that odd. You’d have to be a serious nonce to conflate dramatized wrestling with wildlife conservation, but here we are.

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      • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        On September 12, 1989, the Federation sent a letter to the Fund addressing its federal trademark application for the “WWF” mark in International Class 41 (for wrestling entertainment services). The International Class 41 also includes education, which the Fund were registered in. This marked the beginning of formal discussions between the two parties regarding the use of the “WWF” initials.

        They reached an agreement, but once wrestling started putting stiff on the Internet, that effectively broke that agreement.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m just going off memory, but sky tv already provided computer-related services and products in Britain, so it’s not unreasonable for them not to want another company essentially using their name for a product that could quite easily be confused as to being associated with them

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    • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Especially with how things went the last time a tech company was at odds with a British company over a name. Apple Records

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      • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The Beatles got quite a lot of cash from Apple when they started selling music through iTunes, right?

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• tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Still, to what end?

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  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I assume it’s a new tag team, or something along those lines. This makes it so a rival promoter can’t use the same name for a different tag team, or sell competing merchandise. That sort of thing. Someone could still open “Vice City Coffee Co.” and sell shirts and it wouldn’t be directly competing with them at all.

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    • siv9939@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      WWE currenty has a wrestler Superstar going by Lola Vice and Vice City has been used in relation to her. She recently left their developmental brand and is heading to the main roster, so WWE will probably be selling Vice City shirts to fans.

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    • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wild and super ick.

      I hate Eric Bischoff but I loved that era. NWO was one of the funniest things I’d ever seen.

      They should bring that back for Halloween or something.

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Its also a very hyper specific hex code of red, and any minor difference even a single hex digit difference is enough to not infringe, unless it is in combination with other marks they have.

  They dont have just “red,” its like they have exactly #FF0A0A or whatever.

  Business colors are very specific and deviate from other types of protection marks like that, for good reason. They need the extra “resolution.” (IYKYK)

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