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Maybe I'm confused. Which law would you presume was violated? Did Django violate the same law when it was named Django? Did Python violate that same law?
by boxed 1y ago
Maybe I'm confused. Which law would you presume was violated? Did Django violate the same law when it was named Django? Did Python violate that same law?
- lapcat 1y agoThe issue is that Tony Iommi is a live person, so using his name can give the impression that he endorses or is in some way associated with the product. Django Reinhardt died in 1953 and thus cannot endorse a product 50 years later. Monty Python is not a person.
- boxed 1y agoMonty Python was at the time a group of people (seems worse than a single person), and afaik also a trademark (also seems worse). But yea, maybe Python made a legal gamble that just happened to work out. I am not a lawyer :shrug:
- ofrzeta 1y agoI don't think anyone is under the impression that Tony Iommi is promoting a web framework.
- lapcat 1y agoWhy not? After all, he's promoting a perfume: https://www.nordstrom.com/s/tony-iommi-monkey-special-parfum/8101983 https://www.nordstrom.com/s/tony-iommi-monkey-special-parfum...
- cholantesh 1y agoHaving spent a lifetime around hessians, I can't imagine a product I want less.
- boxed 1y agoI honestly doubt he's promoting it after seeing it :P Sounds more like his record company could smell money.
- Triphibian 1y agoThe ultimate test of this would be to name the next thing Kardashian.