Almost anything can be had through Buy Nothing — except the name.

Not exactly… world news. But it’s happening all over the world.

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Can one trademark a brand and then announce that it is immediately public domain so that no one else can ever trademark it? Someone should trademark No Buy Stuff or some such phrase and do that.

    • solrize@lemmy.ml
      2·
      14 hours ago

      What was that brand that tried to pitch itself as a non-brand having no logo, but its stuff had a black smudgy circle as a logo? It wasn’t “No Logo” (title of a Naomi Klein book) but I had thought it was related to that. It amused me. Web search isn’t finding it right now.

  • paper_moon@lemmy.world
    13·
    15 hours ago

    Back in college when I was more active on Craigslist, they called it freecycle. I always wondered why and where buy-nothing came from, as I was extremely familiar with the term freecycle already.

    • IamSparticles@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Freecycle did the same thing a few years ago. Our local freecycle group had to change their name to Giving With Integrity.

  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
    8·
    14 hours ago

    Wow what an asshole thing to do. They want to make money off their book. Crazy that people need these Facebook groups to get food and resources when SNAP is not available and these two just want to make money.