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Agree parents are too often harmful but trademarks seem necessary for trust. If I’m buying a can of Coca Cola with the logo I want it to be the real drink and
by spacebanana7 3y ago
Agree parents are too often harmful but trademarks seem necessary for trust.
If I’m buying a can of Coca Cola with the logo I want it to be the real drink and not some fake import.
- denton-scratch 3y agoImagine a world without parents!
- hakfoo 3y agoWhy not some sort of "certificate of origin" instead. Maybe it's a ugly looking government label or even a QR code, and misuse of it would be under deceptive-trading laws. The point is for it to be functional, rather than letting rich firms land-rush anything (colours, shapes, fonts) that might be marketing assets. In the end, you'd have 35 red cans with white text on the shelf, but the boring square label on the box tells you which firm actually made it.
- spacebanana7 3y agoCertificates can be a useful backstop but consumers would be taken advantage of by bad actors if marketing assets were otherwise identical.
- tpmoney 3y agoFor the same reason you probably want your domain registrar to prevent the registration of РayРal.com even though the SSL certificate would surely indicate that it was a russian scam site rather than the barely better american business.