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Kelly@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Are color palettes subject to copyright protection?English
3·8 months agoIts Trademark Law in Australia.
For example Cadbury has a trademark protecting its purple (defined as pantone 2685C) from competitors in the chocolate industry. On the other hand Whiskas has one protecting its purple (defined as CMYK {40% C, 100% M) from competitors in the cat food industry.
Because its trademark law both only cover their specific industries (so purple would be fair game for a business in another field), but despite the precise definitions used for the colours they would be able to argue that a competitor using a similar purple could cause confusion in consumers, (so they effectively block out an area of the color spectrum).
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed ShadowsEnglish
15·8 months agoI believe its production budget was pegged at between $250m and $350m.
So this particular item in the marketing budget is less than 1% of the development costs.
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.English
72·8 months agoI don’t think the maths checks out
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
Boost for Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is Boost for reddit finally dead?English
1·8 months agoIf in doubt I recommend looking at either Wikipedia or github for canonical links.
Revanced isn’t big enough for a Wikipedia page but there github profile links to the official pages:
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•at the plasma donation place, one of the screening questions is "have you had a condition with scab formation?" - like, a superficial cut, or a mosquito bite?English
10·8 months agoa condition with scab formation?
Ask them if unsure but my guess is they mean conditions like Haemophilia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemophilia
Also don’t rely on their screening. I believe the test a performed on bundles of donations for efficiency and a bad donation may cause the others in that bundle to be discarded too.
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time?English
30·8 months agoA direct boycott of Amazon and its subsidiaries? Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
But boycotting services that happen to use Amazon? Impossible!
Any business may use products ordered from there. Your local toll gate may use AWS. Unless you are a major client nobody is going to let you audit their supply contracts.
and I know there are some games in the series,
25+ games over 40 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Sandiego_(video_game_series)
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow, someone who would never build for you?English
7·9 months agoThat’s the whole gene vs meme concept.
The same principal applies in that people who come after you can receive your ideas.
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli?English
1·9 months agoYou mean Fahrenheit right?
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli?English
1·9 months agoSo… How often do you have to change the filter?
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
Comic Strips@lemmy.world•A Comic Wherein I Would Rather Be Playing Slay the SpireEnglish
8·9 months agoIt also goes on sale quite frequently for like 66% off. Definitely worth picking up at sale price.
For anyone already using using these services its also included in both Game Pass and PS+ Extra at the moment.
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
Games@sh.itjust.works•GameStop selling 500+ stores because of "woke".English
521·9 months ago
Weird sales pitch. I’m not sure who he is trying to appeal to here?
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" server so we can just type in words like we do with the internet?English
13·9 months agoPhone numbers are a “legacy system” if they were designed today they would be different.
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
Games@sh.itjust.works•How Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandalEnglish
2·9 months agoDo you have a link to the archived screenshot?
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM?English
8·9 months agoMobile browser tabs are both too persistent in that they don’t get cleaned up when you close the browser, and too amnesiac in that they can kill a connection if they are placed in background for even a couple of seconds.
Its the worst of both worlds.
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
RetroGaming@lemmy.world•Gamers go offline in retro console revival | The GuardianEnglish
3·9 months agochips
Its a strange product, in the US they were ordered not to call them “chips”, and call them “crisps” instead:
The product was originally known as Pringle’s Newfangled Potato Chips, but other snack manufacturers objected, saying Pringles failed to meet the definition of a potato “chip” since they were made from a potato-based dough rather than being sliced from potatoes. The US Food and Drug Administration weighed in on the matter, and in 1975 they ruled Pringles could only use the word “chip” in their product name within the phrase: “potato chips made from dried potatoes”. Faced with such a lengthy and unpalatable appellation, Pringles eventually renamed their product potato “crisps”, instead of chips.
In the UK, they argued they were not “potato crisps” because they though their low potato content would get a lower tax rate.
In July 2008, in the London High Court, P&G lawyers successfully argued that Pringles were not crisps (the term by which potato chips are known in British English), even though labelled “Potato Crisps” on the container, as the potato content was only 42% and their shape, P&G stated, “is not found in nature”. This ruling, against a United Kingdom value added tax (VAT) and Duties Tribunal decision to the contrary, exempted Pringles from the then 17.5% VAT for potato crisps and potato-derived snacks. In May 2009, the Court of Appeal reversed the earlier decision.
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
Games@sh.itjust.works•Dark and Darker developer did not commit copyright infringement, court rules, but has to pay Nexon nearly $6 million anywayEnglish
14·9 months agoIf they stole the code that would be copyright infringement.
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
Games@sh.itjust.works•Dark and Darker developer did not commit copyright infringement, court rules, but has to pay Nexon nearly $6 million anywayEnglish
25·9 months agoWait… How do Trade Secrets work?
I thought that the individuals might be in legal trouble if they violate NDAs or No Compete clauses but that once the “secret” was out it was fair game.
Kelly@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•For different game store, legally, what happens if they close?English
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I believe in must jurisdictions its the distribution that makes it an issue not the selling. If you started handing out your “Burger King” burgers in a public place I would expect to be shut down.