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Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast hosted by one of the cult that Elon took from his replies.
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So, does that mean he doesn't own the copyright to the logo if it is is a generic Unicode character?
That's a font/design issue, not a character issue. If that were the case, then no one could use letters (or unicode characters) for their logo.
Fonts are definitely subject to copyright. That's why there are open fonts and why not all of the fonts on windows are just thrown into Linux for compatibility.
Edit: forgot to finish with that the inverse is also true. If that X is indistinguishable from something copylefted or public domain then he will be facing a lot of trouble trying to copyright it.
That's my point. If he used a copyrighted/copylefted font, he might be in trouble. But he doesn't get in trouble just for using an unicode character.