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Comment by rafram | Hacker News Reader

You’re going to be hearing from Anthropic’s legal department very, very soon if you use this name.

It's going to be hilarious to watch Anthropic argue with a straight face that it's illegal (or at least tortious) to take someone else's IP and repurpose it

I think this is about trademark not IP

Trademark is a type of intellectual property protection

GP clearly meant "trademark not copyright".

It's perfectly coherent to be in favour of strong protection of trademarks but also weaker copyright laws. They have very different purposes (broadly, consumer protection as a mark of origin vs incentivising creativity). Just because they're both in the legal category of "IP" doesn't mean it's hypocritical to have very different positions on both.

“Claude Composer” is just blatant trademark infringement. It sounds like an official Anthropic product.

We'll see. Happy to change it up if need be. I'd rather beg for forgiveness than permission. <3

TBH I think it's misleading, as I assumed it was an Anthropic product until seeing the repo owner. For ethical reasons, I think you should change it.

Yeah I mean ignoring the legal risks, naming something "$Company-name $Tool" is begging to have it confused with an official product from $Company-name. Even if you don't care about the legal risks, at least care about your users not being confused about who made the thing.

The name is a no-go. They are either going to be nice and ask you to do it or send a cease and desist.

I'd recommend you change it right away

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