Adobe - stop using ‘Photoshop’ as a generic term

[Dabombinable]

Read the posts me and GoodBytes already made on this thread. Adobe doesn't actually care if people say it or not, they just need to be able to show that they make efforts to protect their trademark or else they can lose it.

I know that, but will people actually care? No.

[flibberdipper]

I use Photoshop. Therefore, the images which come from me are Photoshopped. End of story.

[GoodBytes]

I use Photoshop. Therefore, the images which come from me are Photoshopped. End of story.

Doesn't matter if you care or not. What they do care is to show something to the judge if they take someone to court for genuine trademark infringement. The one brought to court by Adobe, can't say "Yea i called my software 'PhotoShop' because it a word commonly used, might a s well be part of the English dictionary". Now Adobe lawyers can basically say: "No, we do our best to protect our trademarks. We do this, this, and that, and that as well, plus we try and educate people, and therefor we take a fairly active stance in protecting our trademarks, despite being is used a lot in the field".

[bob345]

Its like adobe doesn't even know how the internet works

[GoodBytes]

Its like adobe doesn't even know how the internet works

Please read my and RH00D posts.

This is more like Adobe lawyers, Why? mentioned posts talked about it. Read them.

[zacRupnow]

The term "photoshopped" may have it's origin from Adobe's software but it does not belong to Adobe. The term "photoshopped" refers to photo and shop, as in work shop and Adobe's software is named Photoshop as in "a workshop for photographs." Adobe is making the misconception that they can Trademark a loose concept.

[thekeemo]

They are doing it to prevent it being a generic term and therefore preventing them from having it as a trademark of Adobe.

[JoshB2084]

Did Adobe running out of idea??? <_<

[Dredgy]

Seriously, that is silly of them. They can't control this any more than any other name brand company can control their products being used as a verb.

Many brands have actually done it to some level of success.

[Peepnbrick]

That photo was photoshopped.

 

That photo was Paint.net'ed

[FuzzyYellow]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS THEN?!

exactly my point.

[MattLantis]

So Adobe's butthurt about us using Photoshop generically... I feel as if they should be more butthurt about the fact that so many people pirate their fucking software

[Kamil]

"We don't have a trademark for all this other stuff, but people might think we do so nobody's ever allowed to use any of them."

[GoldSrc]

Even if an image is "Gimped", people will call it Photoshopped, good luck trying to kill something that's so buried in the Internet culture.

[Dabombinable]

So Adobe's butthurt about us using Photoshop generically... I feel as if they should be more butthurt about the fact that so many people pirate their fucking software

*Because its so expensive

[pk-man]

Adobe should be thrilled about people using the term generically.  It's like people saying "google this" for searching stuff online. 

 

so fucking salty.

[MattLantis]

*Because its so expensive

^

[Admiral Naismith]

[SSL]

While it looks and sounds silly what they are doing, they must show that Adobe is protecting their trademark, else it becomes public property, and also it won't stand in court, even if someone creates a photo editor called "Photoshop", as it is now public.

Showing that they do steps to protect their trademark, provide validity to a judge that PhotoShop is properly a trademark, and privately owned, and no one else can use it without permission.

 

So it's silly. Gotcha.

[Trik'Stari]

................................................................................................................Is a corporation REALLY trying to tell us what language we can use in our daily lives?

Seriously?.....copyrights have gone too far.

[Notional]

Yay for retarded american trade marking laws. After all, they will lose the right to the name Photoshop, if it becomes a generic term. It might have gone too close to that already, since they released this crap.

[ofr057]

well oxford dictionary uses the term photoshop loosely so i think adobe cant really just change it, you would have better luck getting the Americans pronouncing Aluminium

 

To edit, manipulate, or alter (a photographic image) digitally using Photoshop image-editing software.

[Dabombinable]

well oxford dictionary uses the term photoshop loosely so i think adobe cant really just change it, you would have better luck getting the Americans pronouncing Aluminium

Straight up, I tend to ignore American definitions of words since spelling is normally butchered.

[Arty]

So Adobe's butthurt about us using Photoshop generically... I feel as if they should be more butthurt about the fact that so many people pirate their fucking software

you see them trying to stop it no?

big biznuess pay them a whole lot of $$$$

just like ms doesn't give 2 shits if you pirated windows.

the enterprise  $$$ makes most of these companies money.

[WereCat]

Their management must be totally Gimped.

PS:

Adobe... Why is this bothering you at all? You won't escape from this!