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Apple threatens repairman with "4 to 8 years in prison"
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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This is about licensing the use of the apple logo, which makes it really bizarre, there's no way using a logo of a product you repair for a repair service isn't fair use, right?
There's a case to be made that it suggests some kind of affiliation with the company. A consumer may think he's an officially licensed repairman.
It'd be a stronger case if it was just the logo of the product, not the logo of the company.
Yeah there's plenty of reasons to hate Apple's anti-consumer repair/third party repair policies. We don't need to be inventing fake ones too.
It depends on how you're using it. If you're presenting yourself as an authorized repair facility and you aren't actually one, that could be a major issue.
Apple gives rights to their partnered repair centers to use their logos in certain situations. It sounds like this guy's use of the logo was not within the licensing.