The new X logo has started replacing the blue bird on the web.

Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo.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

  • Frz@lemm.ee
    7·
    1 year ago

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

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year 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.

    • 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
          3·
          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.