Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo.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.”

  • EnderWi99in@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

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

      • kirklennon@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year 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.

      • BailOrgana@kbin.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • blivet@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        That’s just anonymized data. I own a few domains, and none of the whois information points to me personally.