pklein Posted November 12, 2007 Share #1 Posted November 12, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Came across this today, via a link on The Online Photographer: Color + Design Blog / Beware! T-Mobile Owns the Color Magenta by COLOURlovers I want to state, categorically, that I always use IR cut filters on my M8, and am therefore not infringing upon T-Mobile's or Deutche Telekom's sacred corporate turf. --Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted November 12, 2007 Posted November 12, 2007 Hi pklein, Take a look here T-Mobile/DT owns the color magenta. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
johnbuckley Posted November 13, 2007 Share #2 Posted November 13, 2007 Oh man, in a battle in Germany between T-Mobile and Leica, I think I know who wins... ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
proenca Posted November 13, 2007 Share #3 Posted November 13, 2007 guess im an outlaw then ... I dont use IR cut filters on my M8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted November 13, 2007 Share #4 Posted November 13, 2007 ...Funny story.... makes me remember that also the "Ferrari Red" is a patented hue, but seems VERY easy and cheap to skip it... is sufficient to buy a Ferrari (NEW, NOT USED) and you'll receive a liberatory on using their "red" ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted November 13, 2007 Share #5 Posted November 13, 2007 Interesting.. It seems the colour is defined under law as the product of a certain wavelength. Now the M8 can use IR to produce magenta, so I suppose that the use of magenta produced by an M8 would not be an infringement of the trademark:D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted November 13, 2007 Share #6 Posted November 13, 2007 A few years ago the Swedish alcohol authority prohibited the manufacture of dandelion wine. A number of gardeners asked why the heck the Government had not prohibited dandelions too, while they were at it ... Germany of course is a nation of obsessive litigants, even more than the U.S.A., but copyrighting part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum does seem a bit extreme, even so. The old man from the Age of Free Visibility Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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