[evil-olive]

Amazon could try that, but it wouldn't stop there. they'd end up in a constant arms race.

also, that "you know, for search" tagline is featured on t-shirts sold by Elastic [0]. seems entirely plausible to me that Amazon & Elastic lawyers could get into a pissing contest about potential trademark or copyright protection of that term and whether sending it as an HTTP header constitutes infringement.

0: https://elastic.shop/products/you-know-for-search-t-shirt-st...

[toast0]

I'm sure the lawyers would be happy to spent lots of time hashing out the details, but Sega v Accolade [1] would seem to be relevant and allow Amazon to use trademarks for interoperability.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade

[inet6]

Apple won their Hackintosh copyright lawsuit against Psystar over their copyright haiku that the machine will refuse to boot if absent.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-warns-off-os-pirates-wit...

[easton]

The haiku is “ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc”, whereas the linked poem is loaded with DSMOS I think.

[javagram]

Possible precedent for the use of copyright law in such a way: https://www.eff.org/cases/lexmark-v-static-control-case-arch...

[contravariant]

Though I suppose they're now implicitly making it part of the API, which I think was ruled to fall under fair-use, though I'm not too sure about the details.

[easton]

“You Know, for Search” is sent in Elasticsearch 6.8 on AWS. Was it removed at some point?