Mojang and Bethesda Settle Scrolls Suit
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Related add-ons, eh? I smell a loophole here. Just make a new game in the series and call it a stand-alone expansion pack. Like with DOW.Andy Chalk said:
Everybody truly did win.
K I'm going to trade mark the letter A, B, C, and D. So anyone that uses those letter will have to pay me or be sued. Why not it worked for the tools at Bethesda.
Why is it people who don't understand these things make the most obnoxious comments..disgruntledgamer said:
You go for it mate, it'll get thrown out harder than the "Edge" games debacle.
I agree here... I remember when the lawsuit first came up a more rational person on here pointed out that the actual trademark Mojang had filed was basically all encompassing, to the point that Zenimax had to sue or Mojang could sue them in the future for something like selling Elder Scrolls T-shirts, never mind the video game.Xanadu84 said:
A win-win in this situation should be Mojang dropping the ridiculous trademark or narrowing it's scope, not simply handing it over to the even bigger team of lawyers. It may be fine settlement for the two parties involved but it's a lose-lose situation for everyone else.
Oh, except of course for the lawyers. I have a feeling that it was a lawyer who made the initial broad filing of the Scrolls trademark, which coincidentally is going to create a ton of future work for lawyers.
Agreed. There are few lawsuits that involve so much legalese and so little common sense. Admittedly, intellectual property can be pretty nebulous, but the law is written in such a way that companies have to go to stupid lengths in order to protect themselves, or they potentially lose everything. If the stakes weren't so high and the requirements of "protecting" themselves so vague we'd have far fewer lawsuits like this.Strazdas said:
I'm just glad it's over and both sides seem satisfied.
In this case it's a little different. They can use the words but not on their own. If you actually read the reasoning behind the lawsuit it was something like this:Magnicon said:
If we let Scrolls pass this sets a terrible president of "like name" games. What if someone released the game "The Eldest Scrolls". It's just two words that happen to look like "Elder Scrolls"; why should Bethesda worry over it?
And if they did raise a copyright complaint over "The Eldest Scrolls" could argue they didn't raise a single flag at the trademark of "Scrolls" (Which could be considered to be the same issue) so why should they for this game?
Given how convoluted any sort of "business laws" can become (copyright, trademark, licensing, etc), this is easily the best outcome you could have hoped for.
Damn, I was too slow before you posted this.Gather said:
I was going to suggest that in a perfect world, I would pay a team to create a game called The Eldest Scrolls or The Older Scrolls.
I would pay for an endless court battle against Zenimax with my inexhaustible resources, then pay for another endless battle counter-suing, win or lose.
I would make it some sort of F1 car racing game for my added amusement. Perhaps an elvish one.
I would do this after I had finished providing the funding for Wasteland 2 of course. (And Fallout online for that matter).
Lawyers behaved like cunts, and by extension Zenimax are cunts, as well Bethesta. Just a huge fucking cuntfest. I hope they all die a fiery death.FateOrFatality said:
Anyone else see the irony in this statement?Suave Charlie said:
How is trademarking something like edge different than trademarking something like scrolls? FYI it's not it's equally retarded.
