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Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears (www.theverge.com)
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Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”

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[–] 26 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Couldn't even pay for the new logo....

Twitter replaced the logo after Musk requested for people to post logo submissions and that “if a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow.” Musk then pinned a tweet featuring a video created by a Twitter user named Sawyer Merritt and changed his own profile photo to the new X logo. Musk did note that the new X logo is an “interim” one, so it could be replaced at a later stage.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Uh, what? There’s gotta be some copyright issues with doing this…

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    How? He's owned "X" for decades. It was the name of his first company. Dude is obsessed with calling everything X.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think he means the artwork for the letter since the font is commercially available?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    US copyright law doesn't allow for protection of something like that. A dingbat, yes, but if it's very plainly recognizable as an X then the exact shape and output of that typeface isn't protectable. You can even print out a font, scan it, and create a new copycat font from it. The only thing you can't do is reproduce the actual typeface file itself, which is fundamentally a single copyrighted piece of software. Some other countries allow more protection on the shapes of individual letters, but I don't think you'd ever win a case anywhere on such a simple geometric shape as this X.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Funny that he doesn't own x.com

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    I mean, a functional company would have made it a legit co tests with terms/Conditions so that they owned every submission or at least the winner.

    Musk probably just sent the tweet and picked a winner, so yeah, they may not own it and if they start using it the creator may be able to sue.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    What's even funnier is that anyone pretending to be the creator of the logo is a liar. (It is a scammer's website, after all.)

    It's a symbol that's part of the "mathematical alphanumerical symbols" subset of Unicode since ~2001: 𝕏, also known as Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X (U+1D54F).

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