Climate activist Greta Thunberg is seeking to trademark her name and the Fridays for Future campaign in a move meant “to protect the movement and its activities,” she wrote on Instagram on Wednesday.
In her post on the photo-sharing platform, Thunberg said she and her fellow school strikers have “absolutely no interests in trademarks, but unfortunately it needs to be done.”
The trademarks would cover the 17-year-old Swede’s name, as well as the name of the “Fridays for Future” movement and ‘Skolstrejk för klimatet’ (which translates as “School strike for the climate” in Swedish), the slogan on a sign she held during her weekly solo climate protests outside of Sweden’s parliament which inspired similar protests by other activists.
The climate activist said the trademark was needed because her name and that of the movement “are constantly being used for commercial purposes without any consent whatsoever.”
“It happens, for instance, in marketing, selling of products and people collecting money in my and the movement’s name,” she wrote.
“Fridays For Future is a global movement founded by me. It belongs to anyone taking part in it, above all the young people. It can — and must — not be used for individual or commercial purposes,” she added.
Thunberg also announced that she and her family were setting up a foundation “for handling money (book royalties, donations, prize money, etc.) in a completely transparent way.”
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Here we go. Daddy and Mommy want their cut of the free $ which comes from the imbeciles. Can’t wait when Greta Dumberg kicks her parents out of the foundations. It will happen soon enough. This little swedish jerk hates everyone.
Next comes St Greta Day then that’s followed by all the product endorsment’s the mechendise the ads and who know what else will follow just rememebr a part from the movie SPACEBALLS the MERCHINDISING
Since she won’t fly due to the release of carbon dioxide she must also give up her use of social media since those server farms that twitter, instagram, facebook, etc use incredible amounts of electricity created by burning of fossil fuels. Also she must give up her laptop and cell phone since they are made with plastics. Otherwise she’s just another hypocrite.
The scammers are claiming victim status. Snakes and ladders.
Let her use a Hot Air Balloon proving Al Gore is there to provide the Hot Air
Greta Inc . What took them so long .
What a joke .
Right, because we’re just lining up in droves waiting to steal a name like “Greta Thunberg”. Most of the products I’ve seen “profiting off of her” are self-published criticisms of her movement, published before she even considered doing this, as well as a few Zazzle printed products for kids and soccer moms, nothing worth crying over. Man, this girl is so full of herself! Give or take a couple of years, and she won’t even be relevant anymore. She’ll be a grown-ass adult, and the whole cutesy Swedish schoolgirl image will have worn off and been replaced with that of a whiny socialist with arrested development.