Why It’s (Sometimes) Illegal to Use These Colors
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Music by Epidemic Sound
The year is 2118.
Every single color is trademarked.
You now get copyright striked for showing the sky in a video.
Fuck it I'm leaving the sol system
One does not simply trademark all 16777216 colours. Also, what happens if 30-bit or 48-bit colour becomes a thing? You'd have to apply for either a billion or 2.8 * 10^14 trademarks.
@@ganaraminukshuk0 r/woooosh
Basically what happens today with White Noise, then.
@@deadtoallnohonornohope leave life
Prisoner: what you in for?
Me: I painted a wall #81D8D0...
Prisoner: you monster! I only killed someone you should be put in solitary
Random thing you are gonna have to bring your smarts to heel.
People should not be olowed to own colors.
@@gunarsmiezis9321 Or allowed.
lets lock him up with the guys who repost minion memes and park in multiple spaces
@@tuamatrem8304 you mean karens?
Fun fact: T-Mobile is called Magenta in Austria
I think i also remember a Magenta brand in Hungary, so it may be there too.
betar Kuchen nice
Another fun fact:
In (North) Macedonia T-Mobile has a "Magenta 1" program
Magenta Telekom,t-systems, T-Mobile (various forms for different countries) etc. Are all subsidiaries of the "Deutsche Telekom AG" with headquarters in Bonn, Germany
@@ItsTaionna no.
"hey lets make target merch"
*makes target shoes*
Christian Louboutin: wait thats illegal
Late af but kinda fun fact, Saint Laurent actually got away with violating the trademark, since when they got sued by louboutin, the judge ruled it was ok since the whole shoe, every nook and cranny was meant to be red and it can't be done if they don't paint the soles red, it entered a loop hole and they where able to produce it
@@Hhuiza0 I think cause in that case the color was functional
@@Hhuiza0 thanks for educating
Man 1: So how'd you get in jail.
Man 2: I murdered a man. You?
Man 1: I used a very specific type of pink in my product.
Man 2: You sick bastard...
@Fanghorn Bilers Guy 3: I posted a meme that wasn't full original content
Guy 2 & 1: How could you...
In before this video gets copyright striked for using protected colors.
Same
I'm gay for Beast
You clearly didn't watch it then.
Wth are you subbed to all of the youtubers???
How to use them bots dude?
"Am I about to spend the next few months in jail? Maybe, but not for this." *What have you been up to?*
Scriptem he forgot to use his vpn and a hacker made him use a trademarked color in his thumbnail
...
He was put in jail because he outpizza'd the hut...
They found out what he did in 1999
@@upincominggigachad9955 Oh no! Anything but that!
The fact that I said "Oh, it's Tiffany blue" as soon as I saw it just goes to show how ingrained the idea is.
Hahaha me to
I had no idea, I just thought it would be a great color for a Fender Jazzmaster or something
I don't even know what Tiffany is lol
What does the company Tiffany even do lol
I don’t know what Tiffany is. I know pretty much all brands except when it relates to fashion or something…….. and yes, a quick Google search tells me it has something to do with fashion.
Im gonna trademark oxygen and sue the world using it
Raggity I’m gonna trademark the ground and sue anybody who steps on it. 1 step is 1 dollar.
Oxygen?! I only breathe mOxygenTM!.
I only use oxygen but its slowly killing you™ type of oxygen
That's one way to take over world.
I’m gonna trademark every word from every language and every time you say something, typing, speaking, sign language etc you gotta pay 5 dollars
Next episode coming in 2021 when Sam gets released from jail
Lmao king of serbian gameplay ajde da vidimo te epicne gejmplejeve
A nema ih
"how Counterfeit money is made"
sad :(
2021 video: shows Eiffel tower in night
I am seeing u everywhere!
Trademarks differ from other forms of IP (copyright, patent, TS) in that they are consumer protections. It is meant to prevent companies from confusing consumers about the origin of a product, where other IP are meant to give companies the exclusive right to something to further their business interest. That should have been explained as it give a lot of insight as to the thought of why trademarks for colors are a thing.
I actually dont mind. In this case the trademarks make sense and looks like it'd be hard to exploit (or even enforce).
I mean can't you just add or subtract a tad bit of red and then it will be legal but visualy indistinguishable
@@OrangoTheAndro They literally said this in the video. Sort of.
@@firstlast-oo1he
yes
Tiffany&Co: My colour
Me with the soul purpose of existence to trigger people: uses the same colour but by one shade off separately on the blue green and red scale and patents those colours
Sam: "I started a company in 1996"
Also Sam: born in 1997
Of course. Netfilms! The pioneering startup that streamed movies on 56k dialup connections using ULD (Ultralow Definition) 160x90 pixel RealVideo!
r/wooosh
What? You don't start a company before being born?
@@emilio1044 r/woosh
@@zz12345aaa12345zz how? I did get the joke
Because using colors is offensive towards colorblind people.
you're everywhere...
Legend has it he has turned on notifications for every channel on RUclips
*_metal is a copyrighted color_*
how do I properly clean my metal computer
Just say you're not using any colors. It's not like they'll know
That turquoise-ish color was my favourite color. UGHHHH I could like any color and I liked the copyrighted one!
If you watch the video, you'll see that this is only a problem if you intend to use that color for your new luxury goods store. Feel free to paint your house this color.
HollywoodF1 ok thx for telling I didn't watch the vid
i mean, if you're not a luxury market i think Tiffany Blue might still be on the table?
@@HollywoodF1 I'm late af, but even broader than that, using trademarks is only a problem if you use them "in commerce," so more or less in connection with selling goods and services. So most people never have to worry about trademark law emptying their wallets at all.
Meanwhile Me: *Cries for liking the Pan Am™ blue and Legend of Zelda™ green...*
I love 4 Times as Interesting. It's 8 times as interesting as this show!
4 times as interesting? Sounds like a good channel.
sounds 8 times as interesting as this! ;)
A drawn-out explanation on why you might be served a Trademark lawsuit by the Owners of Half as Interesting!
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*Red is shared property of all workers, comrade.*
Our red
@@ynohdomi *_-OUR RED-_*
Da.
Also shared property of all races.
Stalin agrees.
It is extremely difficult to stop people from "illegally mixing paint" to produce a trademarked shade of color. If I mix the precise pigments to produce "Tifanny blue", then the burden is on Tiffany & Co. to prove that I "knowingly" produced their exact shade of blue. That's a steep hill to climb.
yeah, that's why the shade isn't trademarked for general use, but instead trademarked for their specific market niche. that's clever, I mean, can you imagine companies trying to copyright a colour alltogether? lmao
bro did you even watch the video
No, this is not true at all. They don't have to prove you did it "knowingly". It's on you to figure out if you're violating any trademarks. A lab can determine if two colors are identical. But, they can only trademark it for a certain product field, or any field where they sell products. If you're using it for electronics, not jewelry, you'd be fine. Your comment is moot for another point. Even if you do all that, they could still sue you and bankrupt you from lawyers fees to defend yourself.
Wait... UPS IS BROWN?
My life has been a whole lie
what color did it appear?
I'm confused.
You never noticed that their trucks and uniforms are brown?
Working Brown
*what color did you THINK they were?*
Their old slogan was "What can BROWN do for you?"...so yeah, brown.
2:49 *"thanks to those sweet sponsorship dollars"* he says while quickly flashing a picture of Dashlane's logo
*_Half as Interesting is a Mad Lad !_*
r/madlads
Newton : discovers spectrum
300 years later : Colours get copyrighted
Newton: :o
Who knows, he might like it - Newton was an angry, cantankerous bigot whose opinion of a person had a lot to do with what you felt about his religious beliefs, and if he didn't like yours, or if you were a professional competitor, he'd make it his professional mission to ruin your career. He might like another tool in the intellectual property toolshed by which the powerful can abuse the powerless.
@@delusionnnnn Spell Joke
@@halfnwhole751 Look up "commentary".
Cam Newton is confused?
delusionnnnn bruh what kind of drugs are you taking... nobody gives a fuck
Being able to trademark a color is one of the biggest failures of trademark law
it's not, it's a good way to make a monopoly in design
It’s like you watched this whole video but didn’t understand the concept. How would you like it if you spent thirty years building up a product in the minds of consumers using a specific shade of puke green to sell, say, tubas, and then some joker comes in and starts selling shoddy, low quality tubas with your same exact shade of puke green and this lowers the overall perception of your product as well as undercut your own sales by selling a similar looking but ultimately inferior product. Should someone just have the right to copy your hard work to piggyback off your puke green tuba selling success?
@@bradleythebuilder8743 If the only distinguishing characteristic of your product is a color, that sounds like a pretty shitty product to me.
@@FlorenceFox You ignored all his points.
@@bradleythebuilder8743 A colour shouldn't be the only defining factor in the colour...They also have fonts and designs.
TBH your logo makes me think that the History Channel jumped into the 2010's xD
NO WAY WE COULD OWN GOATS I NEVER WOULD HAVE KNOWN!
My goat, my goat. My kingdom for a goat.
GoaTo Hell ( sorry)
Sieger k?
@JoelTheBeardSurvivor In Russia they can
JoelTheBeardSurvivor IN SOVIET RUSSIA-
*This video was taken down by the owners of colors.*
this RUclips after all xD
*this comment was taken down by the owners of RUclips comments*
why are you on every video
Whyyyyyyyyyyyy
I own the color white, and i am copy striking you for using our color
"You can have the money and the world, the angels and the pearls, even trademark the colour blue" ~Shinedown
I had to look up the lyrics because it has been a year since I last listened to that song. Thank you for this because I just realized how long it has been since I last listened to them.
If you have the technology to make “4 times as interesting” and aren’t using, you are the monsters.
That would be an 8x increase in interesting, and you owe it to the world.
*What if someone is born that colour*
They get copyrightstriked and terminated by youtube
Sorry, but anyone born that shade of blue is almost definitely dead.
Ups will send assassins to kill them.
T H E Y D I E
Well unless they go into a self-owned delivery company where their appearance is part of the branding they should be fine.
*i will trademark the colour red*
Guess McDonald's and Wendys and Target got there first.
@@thenewjustiny.3686 And Royal Mail in the UK
And probably Ferrari
In Soviet Russia, Red colors you.
*U BETRAYED US*
3:51 "We don't sell soda or phones"
(yet)
yeet
0:56 This blue-ish colour is actually Crypton Future Media’s signature colour and it is also the colour of the hair of *Hatsune Miku,* a Japanese singer.
they are slightly different
My keyboard displays 16.8 million colors each 2 seconds. Therefore, my keyboard is illegal per 1/8.4 millionth of a second per brand-trademarked color.
Have you heard that corsair keyboards actually only display around 500?
@@primtve_dope9568 Didn't they fix that? It was a CUE problem, right?
@@Austinatan ive got no idea, i got the strafe keyboard myself. I think the 16.8mil was just a commercial thing though
@@primtve_dope9568 the 16.8m thing is based on the fact that LEDs in the RGB backlit keyboards can display color with 255 possible values in the R, G and B channels or be off, which mutliplies to approximately that amount. Why would it be different?
@@yurab1834 oh, smart. That's kinda a lie though innit, the 16.8 mil thing
But are the colours sponsored by Dashlane?
Brazilian Mapping Wow I didn’t expect to find you here.
@@Rain_Beau Don't you *DARE* offend my mother country *ENGLAND*
@@Rain_Beau D:
@@ynohdomi Hope you know Color originated from England.
@Saspy Mapping no
I was entirely unaware that Tiffany & Co. even had a specific color associated with their brand
Little did I think that one little HAI video I watched a while ago would be so relevant now to artists, but here we are. Thanks Adobe
I own fifty shades of grey
What are the specific color codes so I know which not to use? 😂
Mine are fifty shades darker...
@@2headedtasman200 Lol
Mine are fifty shades freeded
I own 1 shade of red
"4 times as interesting"
"Half as interesting"
Hmm...
4 x 1/2 = twice as interesting
@nitrrogen no u
@@FrozenBusChannel
A = 4πr² = Surface area of sphere as interesting
Put the radio on the internet and Russ's car!
And nobody is talking about Silicon Valley in the comments? How?
I ran into this doing a package re-design for 3M. That red 3M you see on all their stuff can ONLY be used for the logo. I found that out the hard way when I suggested a red package use the 3M red color for printing as a cost reduction measure and ended up with legal on my case about it. If I had watched this video 8 years ago, I would have been savvier.
what if I trademark white for my paper company's logo and stop everyone else from making white paper?
i suspect you'll have a very poor showing in court, when the other side rolls out that paper has been white for the last 100 or so years, and has been manufactured in that color by pretty much every paper company ever.
Though you could probably go for a lovely shade of red, pink, or light blue if you wanted.
I think that would fall under “functional” because white paper is the easiest to see black on.
I'll make your toilet paper brown if you want.
Thats not how trademark work. You can't trademark a quality of a product (e.g. Delicious Food, White Paper, Black Pepper, ...)
@@ieatgarbage8771 yea
0:52 *COMMUNISM INTENSIFIES*
*Capatalism has left the chat*
@: *OUR VODKA ENTERS THE CHAT*
*spelling has left the chat*
slav has entered the chat
That moment when you are selling art and accidentally use a copyrighted color and then get sent to prison.
Anish Kapoor is the kind of asshole who would do that…the suing part.
I would really like if "4 Times as Interesting existed". It would be more serious without bad jokes and also very worth to watch.
I used to work a company (Digital) who were part of one of those important trademark cases. They made VAX computers. When somebody else thought Vax was a good name for a vacuum cleaner the lawyers thought otherwise. The court said that since the products were completely different with no chance of confusion, Vax vacuum cleaners were OK.
This show is a dumpster fire with a bit of information and bad humor thrown out
nah
@@flurpiex2595 yah
u literally stole that line from the video
kevinhugg ...and that’s the joke, congrats!
@@elliehugg /woooosh
HAI: Created Netfilms
Netflix: aM I a JOkE To yOu?
Are you a kid? Grow up and stop writing comment using this kind of childish format.
The Mount of effort you guys put in your videos is INSANE. Love the channel and wendover
I am always amazed by the smooth transition these videos make towards sponsorship. Probably the best here on youtube.
Yatin T look at the videos on the channel ‘Linus Tech Tips’ they’re even better
Finally, I can tell my mommy that she can get me a pet goat for Xmas, *IM HAPPY!*
“I want a hippopotamus for Christmas!”
@@Bitgedon I want a walrus
Cake Milkshake I want an alligator
Bet Tiffany & Co. can't copyright that blue color in Indonesia because it's the color of telur asin (salted egg) our traditional dish
I'm going to make a picture using only these colours
3:38 pretty much.
0:25 Look in the top right corner... (Bill Gates lol)
How?
@@arig220 Because you know GATES funny level -2753773376
When people realize thier red bottoms are just Target red lmao
happy new year to the staff at Half As Interesting. looking forward to all the new content in 2020!
Why is it illegal to paint -planes- in those colors
Wait oops this isn’t wendover productions
It's at least Half as Interesting as Wendover Productions.
@@buddyclem7328 🅱️alf as 🅱️nteresting
This was an unusually entertaining episode, but it's a bit confusing: At the beginning we're assured that we *can't* make a Tiffany-blue pingpong paddle, but by the end we're assured that a Tiffany-blue pingpong paddle wouldn't violate the Tiffany trademark because Tiffany doesn't make pingpong paddles. :P
That was a really nice, concise, and clear explanation of trademarks, generally, and trademark colors, specifically. Well done!
3:27 LOL you earned my like right there!
Was expecting a video on illegal number flags, but this is cool too.
The rainbow will copystrike u
I would paint a room in all of these colours, but only one shade off. Almost impossible to see the difference, but it’s there.
Your sense of humour is absolutely amazing never stop you dumpster fire
Did someone else notice that Silicon valley reference
(Best show ever)
Yess!! I started to look up comments to confirm if someone else understood the same thing from that...
Where?
@@TheLikeys He put radio on the internet!
Alejandro Salazar so like tune in?
This guy fucks
*_its illegal to use the black word_*
Not if i have anything to say about it.
Mrs Obama get down!
NIGGA
black
Prepare for my civil rights beam
that rhyme scheme at the beginning can make you a great rapper.
"and a hacker's computer can never guess"
Quantum Computing: I'm about to end this password's entire career.
0:24 Who saw Bill Gates, but went back to make sure it was him?
Oof
4:49 Ohhhh. Makes sense. So Netflix ripped you off right?
Yes
@@halfasinteresting hello 🅱️alf as🅱️nteresting.
I'm gonna draw a picture using those trademarked colors, and no one can stop me. >:3
I like your thinking.
Great video as always.
Very funny and interesting.
Love the way you lead into your sponsor.
"Red is shared property of all workers"
*Triumphant Soviet Yelling*
0:53 *soviet anthem plays" THAT IS OUR COLOUR NOW
I'm surprised you didn't mention "Illegal Flags", where strips of colour are used to form a picture, that, when converted into the hexadecimal index for each colour and kept in the correct order, will form data that is legally protected in some manner. So you might be liable for a federal offence if you make and display a flag with vertical stripes of purple, green and blue... provided they're all the exact right shade.
Everytime I like a copyrighted color, I'll just change the blue by 1 if I want to use it to start a luxury store (Outsmarted, Tiffany!) (No offence, necklace)
*100 years pass*
Me: shows the sky in a video.
Also me: gets copyright claimed for showing the sky.
I hate the fact that people can (sometimes) trademark colors.
This should be illegal, colors should always be public domain.
nah, it's only for specific uses. The thing is WE HAVE ALL SEEN products that are clearly meant to deceive you into believing it's something it's not.
It's not fair to someone who spends a lot of time creating an image to have someone else come along and steal that reputation by creating a cosmetically similar product (often of worse quality).
I mean is it fair if you work hard to get a pay bills on time and build your credit that someone can come along and steal your credit score and commit identity theft? No? Well that's what trademark infringement is often trying to do. It's stealing a known companies identity to profit off it's recognition and perceived value.
WATCH. THE. VIDEO. DUMBASS.
In fact, EVERYTHING should be public domain, comrade!
I just think it's just a choice from greedy people. I think as long as you don't intentionally make the color similar you should be fine. Sadly good people get punished because we live in a cruel world.
Jayfive276:The video never explains it. Still unfair!
oh no it does. If your selling coke you can't use coke red and if your selling trucks you can't use ford blue. simple.
I learned more that what I thought I would for this, thanks!!!
You can't trademark a common used word, but you can trademark a COLOR?
4:02 wow that is 8 times as interesting as this channel. I'm leaving and watching them from now on
@nitrrogen that’s not how you count it fam
0,5x8 = 4
“Red is property of all workers.” Yes comrade!
Just found out about this channel and DAMN YOU GUYS ARE DOING IT RIGHT!
If the color helps you identify a brand, then isn't it functional? Thus negating a trademark?
No because identifying a brand is not functional (in the legal sense of a perfect world where there are competitors selling similar products with the same functions so choosing one brand over another has no functional benefit). By the way, this limitations is not just for colours, functional designs can not be trademarked either so you cannot trademark a particular way of building a bridge when it's a vital part of the construction of any bridge of that type. For functional stuff, you need patents.
It's an exception
Would 4 Times as Interesting be a series of 45 minute episodes released every 2 months? It could fit a TV 1 hour...
I agree, Red *IS* shared property of all workers.
Im more happy now, because now I know that when someone owns color, it doesnt mean its completely locked, but just for simillar thing. Nice!😃
When little Jimmy uses the same color as you in your coloring book
My dad’s boss is a billionaire and owns a certain colour of burgundy. It’s the same colour that bears his company’s logo.
0:09 *Kind of hard to tell because you a dark and a light color on the screen. I don’t know which one you were talking about*
I remember a few years ago McDonalds tried to enforce copyright on their name in Scotland against traders of all sorts. Shall we say it is a common name in Scotland so there are a few. Of course they lost heavily and were generally ridiculed, particularly as the representatives clearly did not get the message that others had the same name and had a prior trademark claim which trumped theirs.
I honestly never thought about trademarked colours til I started working for a sign manufacturer. Now UPS brown and T-Mobile magenta feature heavily in my nightmares.
1:12 my school's drama department uses that foam to build sets
Same, it’s the theater foam
We are slowly moving to a dystopian society, aren't we...
Nope.
Nah, just one that immortal companies own almost everything. We just got a public domain dump recently from copyrights expiring, and that hadn't happened since 1998 because of disney. Expect them to try and do it again, because the mouse is only safe until 2024.
I mran you would be pissed if they copied your logo wouldnt you
@@thenewjustiny.3686 If you're talking about Mickey, then they should make a new logo. I wouldn't be very mad myself if I had created it, because I would be long dead if I was around as long as Disney has been.
The copyright laws were intended for people, and set to expire far past when someone would die (75 years, plus however old they were when it was copyrighted) so it could be exorbed back into society for someone else to use it, mix it up and make a living. I'd say Walt Disney himself got enough milage out of Mickey mouse; they were never intended for immortal corporations who never die.
The best part is they took a lot of their best works from the public domain like Cinderella.
Sometimes I am concerned it won't be that slow, but on better dies I would agree lol
This is really well explained. Tiny slip when you conflated 'copyright' with trademark (you briefly said 'copyright infringement' early on) but otherwise it's pretty well spot on :)
- ROI! You know what that stands for?
- Uh, return on inv...
- (interrupting) Return on investment!
- No! Radio on Internet! ROI!
I thought we stopped being able to own colors back in the 1860s
Oh wait
What’s next? Are companies gonna start trademarking scents or touch?
Halcyon _ some scent been done copyrighted already oof.
This works for lots of things. For example, the word “pods” is a trademark of Proctor and Gamble for the not-edible Tide Pods, the developer of “Aqua Pods” water bottles, and PODS Inc. for their storage containers and services....and there could be more for all I know. PODS sued U-Haul for using the term for a portable storage container and won., but the unrelated uses coexist nicely, with only P&G having to have Rob Gronkowski explain how NOT to use their product.
Fun fact: the Michigan State Police has a Trade Mark on the color of “State Police Blue.” And so only cars made for them are painted in that signature color. It used to be in a contract that retired vehicles had to be repainted, but that isn’t a thing anymore, but the only way to have a car in that color is to get a retired MSP car.