Copyrights? Amazon will be “indebted” to the state of Amazonas, according to the governor

In a statement that sparks conversation Social mediaThe current governor of Amazonas state, Wilson Lima, of União Brasil, said he would charge Amazon a fee for using his state’s name.

The state representative stated that he will use the meeting he will hold with representatives of Jeff Bezos’ company to file the claim. The meeting will be held at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), which began on Thursday (30) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

“We will have a meeting with Amazon With the aim of closing the partnership. Amazon uses the name Amazonas, uses the name Amazonia, how much do we get for that? “We want to know,” Wilson Lima said in an interview with the press. “This is a question we will put there.”

So far, no Amazon representative has commented on the Amazon governor’s statements.

But is the ruler right?

(Photo: Alex Pazuello/Secom Government of Amazonas/Reproduction)

Analyzed coldly, Wilson Lima is right in saying that the Amazon brand is inspired by his state, heir to the name of the Amazon River, which runs through it.

In an interview with author Brian Stone, author of “A Loja de Tudo,” which tells the story of Amazon, Jeff Bezos tells how he chose this name.

According to the tech mogul, who is currently one of the richest men on the planet, the name of his project will originally be “Cadabra.” However, because he couldn’t use that trademark, he started looking for another term.

Next, Bezos checked names beginning with the letter “A” in the dictionary, so that his store could be found more easily in Google searches, which were sequential in alphabetical order at the time.

Finally, the visionary found the name “Amazon,” the Anglicized form of “Amazônia” and “Amazonas,” and liked it. Jeff Bezos says he’s fascinated by the river’s history, noting that “there’s no other river like it.”

Since then, this one of the world’s largest retail stores has paid tribute to the famous South American river. In fact, the company’s original logo references the famous curves of this lush body of water.

(Image: Amazon/Reproduction)

Should Amazon pay royalties to the state of Amazonas then?

Legally, no. Despite the inspiration, Amazon has not violated any copyright laws, as the names Amazonia and Amazonas are not registered trademarks.

Furthermore, the river, the forest, and the Amazon state itself are also named after inspiring some people centuries ago.

It is said that in the Age of Discovery, Spanish explorers who descended the Amazon River, unknown at the time and without a given name, were responsible for naming it.

According to reports of Francisco de Orellana, one of the explorers who was part of the entourage of the Pizarro brothers, who conquered the lands of the ancient Inca Empire, during an expedition, his boat was the target of an arrow attack by savage warriors called Amazonas, in an apparent reference to the legendary brave women of the island of Lesbos. , in Greece.

What Orellana could not have imagined was that these women were indigenous, and their descendants still live in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. Even in a humble way, these brave, unknown women helped name their sacred land.