Twitter Refugees Flock To Mastodon

If you're following Elon Musk's involvement at Twitter.com, you'll be familiar with the process and how messy it's become. Quite a few users there are trying other social networks, the most mentioned service is Mastodon.Social. Mastodon is a global network of privately operated open-source servers. Each presents a different interest and server name. But together…

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Hashtags: Protect your Intellectual Property?

Are hashtags *sometimes* intellectual property? http://www.business.com/legal/are-hashtags-intellectual-property/ For instance our registered trademark "How hard can IT be?" is used everyday online at twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23howhardcanitbe&src=typd There are several questions, but mainly: Do we need to assert some sort of control? According to the article cited above, probably not -- because our Registered Trademark doesn't "Cite a specific…