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To label trademarks in the same bucket as copyright is a strawman argument that's a very slippery slope.
Instead of restricting users, trademarks protect users from abuse by providing a consistent user experience associated with a brand. It has been lucky that the free software projects without trademarks have not had a major upset by failing to comprehend the importance of names and brands and how that could be abused by people with malicious intent.