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Uh, what? There’s gotta be some copyright issues with doing this…
How? He's owned "X" for decades. It was the name of his first company. Dude is obsessed with calling everything X.
I think he means the artwork for the letter since the font is commercially available?
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.
The current logo is a copy of the one from XOrg Foundation.
Not really; the XOrg logo is clearly designed in two parts, with a break between the two sections. It's absolutely reminiscent of it, though, just different enough that you can't really call it a copy.
Funny that he doesn't own x.com
That's just privacy protection. I own a few domains, and none of the whois information points to me personally.
Unless it's since changed hands again, he did actually buy the domain back from PayPal ~6 years ago: https://www.techspot.com/news/70077-elon-musk-buys-back-xcom-paypal.html
It's why x.com currently redirects to twitter.
What about xorg? https://x.org/
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.