WWE wants to trademark the term 'Vice City'.

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• BucketBong@p.hobo.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hahahahahahahahah good fucking luck with that WWE, you’re big, but you’re not rockstar big.

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Apple” (the company) has trademarks such as the word “Apple”. And it only works in context of computers. Competitors in example can’t name themselves “Apple”, but you can have in a different buisness than computers a name that contains “Apple”, such as “Apple Hill Cider” or “Apple Leisure Group”. That would not violate the trademark. Trademarks are only a problem if its in the same business.

    Wrestling is not videogames (although there are videogames of it) and therefore cannot be confused with a videogame. So this could workout in theory.

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    • BucketBong@p.hobo.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      WWE makes a wrestling game ever single year.

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    • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dunno. Tiffanys jewelry will sue anyone usimg the name for a restaurant, in reference to the movie. They have a restaurant, but its hardly their core business. Also, the lawyers will argue ‘mind share’ as in apple vs creative labs over the use of the name nano in the context of mp3 players (creative was first).

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• RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s only within the context of professional wrestling. Verizon has a trademark on the color red, but it’s only within the context of cell phones.

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  • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Still, to what end?

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    • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Rockstar:

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• darthsundhaft@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  fine bros image png

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They were just trying to protect us from seeing videos of people emotionally responding to things that weren’t blessed (in financial form) by them

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