It would seem Bethesda fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go against a Swede when trademark is on the line"!
Hey, Bethesda Let’s settle this
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#52I don't know anyone who plays The Elder Scrolls but I could see their fanbase calling it "Scrolls" for short. If not for trademark, they could just be trying to protect SERPs: http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=scrolls&tbs=... (query: scrolls) http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=scrolls+game&... (query: scrolls game) You can clearly see that "scrolls" pulls up mostly pages about The Elder Scrolls. (You ha…
I played every version of The Elder Scrolls. And I never called it "Scrolls". And never saw anyone in the forums use that term to describe any of the games.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Heh, trademarking a single established word is not even where it stops. T-Mobile owns the color magenta! [1]. So don't just stop at words. Let's do letters, colors, etc. And of course as soon as you trademark a color, it implies that you've trademarked all the individual colors that make it up. Thus a trademark on the color white (#FFFFFF (c) (tm) Igor Partola, all rights reserved) would give you all other colors. [1…
Black is the absence of colour. White is composed of all other colours.
Only in additive color mixing. In subtractive mixing, it's the opposite.
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#54I love this idea, and in a society that prided itself on honor, Bethesda would take him up on it. Unfortunately the law does not promote honorable behavior.
Remember, in Game of Thrones, that Bronn only became Tyrion's champion for the money, not any sense of honor. What if Bethesda finds it easier to hire 3 top Quake 3 players for 1k each to fight Notch and friends? They might find it easier than going through the lawsuit.
No need, I'd wager Carmack and friends are plenty good at their own game.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Heh, trademarking a single established word is not even where it stops. T-Mobile owns the color magenta! [1]. So don't just stop at words. Let's do letters, colors, etc. And of course as soon as you trademark a color, it implies that you've trademarked all the individual colors that make it up. Thus a trademark on the color white (#FFFFFF (c) (tm) Igor Partola, all rights reserved) would give you all other colors. [1…
Oh FFS, did you even spend a second figuring out what a trademark on a color actually means?
I honestly don't know what you mean. I have almost no interest in copyright law as it is. All I know is that I believe that if I make a magenta cell phone and start selling it, T-Mobile might get upset. Please explain what you mean.
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#56I like notch, even before this, but now I feel morally obligated to buy Minecraft even if won't ever play it, and Scrolls too :).
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#57Tonight on xplay Todd from Bethblog will be on. Rewteet?
https://twitter.com/#!/jasongiedymin/status/1038604301575249...
https://twitter.com/#!/JasonGiedymin/status/1038613727057018...
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#58I have no clue who Bethesda is, but if they took him up on the offer it would be great PR in the eyes of gaming(?) consumers. It would show they're cool and don't take themselves too seriously. They'd certainly win cool points from me. Do it, Bethesda.
Bethesda being the company responsible for the Elder Scrolls (Morrowind, Oblivion and now Skyrim, amongst others), and for Fallout3 and Fallout: New Vegas.
And oddly enough, by way of their recent purchase of id, Quake 3.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember, in Game of Thrones, that Bronn only became Tyrion's champion for the money, not any sense of honor. What if Bethesda finds it easier to hire 3 top Quake 3 players for 1k each to fight Notch and friends? They might find it easier than going through the lawsuit.
No need, I'd wager Carmack and friends are plenty good at their own game.
Hmm? Bethesda didn't make Quake, if that's what you're saying...
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#60This is not without precedent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_airlines#.22Just_Plan... Southwest Airlines was sued by Stevens Aviation over their use of the phrase "Just Plane Smart" in their advertisements. Herb Kelleher, CEO of Southwest, offered to settle the dispute by arm-wrestling the CEO of Stevens. He lost the match, but got rights to the phrase anyways, and both companies got a lot of good publicity…
Some video of the event - it's just as funny as it sounds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwU9m4oCtRE