Unless they made a licensing deal with Black Lives MatterTM, it is an absolutely epic fold. Their failure to police their mark would cost them the mark.
Once Black Lives MatterTM dilutes it (if not licensed), anyone can. Then it's so long Adidas, nice to know you.
Correct, and once the Bolsheviks Like Money succeeds here, it can move on like locusts to culturally appropriate any other trademark. Companies will bow and scrape lest they be branded as "white privileged" and they, too, will lose their rights to their brand.
Won't stop until some CEO with balls says "Enough!" (of course the board will then fire the CEO for inadequate wokeism.)
Three stripes sounds pretty hard to copyright.
They going to go after sergeants (a common design outside the West is three stripes).
Maybe half the flags in the world? Algeria Argentina.
Austria?