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

• 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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