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Christian metal band sues netflix because google won't show them anymore. (stereogum.com)

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Surely, consumers will be confused as fuck when they try to purchase a demon hunter service and they end up with some weird metal band.

If anyone's confusing the market it's the band!

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

That's exactly what trademark doesn't cover. If it's different industries with no overlap it's fine.

I have a Delta scroll saw at the house, and I've flown to Atlanta on Delta. They're different companies sharing a name, but that's okay because their products don't overlap.

A more interesting example is Apple. Apple Records and Apple Commputers got info a trademark kerfuffle in the 2000s when Apple Computers started selling music on iTunes.