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Title: Makers of Warhammer 40k bully others trying to use the term "Space Marine"
Post by: Ratty on February 13, 2013, 06:49:16 AM: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/trademark-bully-thwarted-spots-space-marine-back-online (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/trademark-bully-thwarted-spots-space-marine-back-online)

Now this just makes me mad. There were space marines decades before Games Workshop came on the scene. It's silly they even got a trademark on the term when pertaining specifically to games considering Doomguy and Master Chief.
Title: Re: Makers of Warhammer 40k bully others trying to use the term "Space Marine"
Post by: KaZudra on February 13, 2013, 02:21:07 PM: Just lol, there were many Space Marines waaay before Warhammer 40k
Title: Re: Makers of Warhammer 40k bully others trying to use the term "Space Marine"
Post by: Gunlord on February 13, 2013, 07:15:17 PM: Ugh, Games Workshop. Terrible company, so I hear. ~_~
Title: Re: Makers of Warhammer 40k bully others trying to use the term "Space Marine"
Post by: Kale on February 14, 2013, 12:52:42 AM: Yea.... but so was the word Diablo and that got trademarked.
Title: Re: Makers of Warhammer 40k bully others trying to use the term "Space Marine"
Post by: Mooning Freddy on February 14, 2013, 06:42:33 AM: Quote from: Kale on February 14, 2013, 12:52:42 AM
Yea.... but so was the word Diablo and that got trademarked.

DA FUCK? Diablo is Spanish for devil. Maybe I'll make a game called "Deus" than sue the Vatican for using the word without my permission.
Title: Re: Makers of Warhammer 40k bully others trying to use the term "Space Marine"
Post by: KaZudra on February 14, 2013, 09:10:17 AM: Quote from: Mooning Freddy on February 14, 2013, 06:42:33 AM
DA FUCK? Diablo is Spanish for devil. Maybe I'll make a game called "Deus" than sue the Vatican for using the word without my permission.
Just make a game with "scrolls" in the title, Bethesda will sue you so fast and try to play it off like the lawyers were the bad guys
Title: Re: Makers of Warhammer 40k bully others trying to use the term "Space Marine"
Post by: Kale on February 14, 2013, 09:24:49 PM: ^Didn't they fail the last time they tried that?
Title: Re: Makers of Warhammer 40k bully others trying to use the term "Space Marine"
Post by: KaZudra on February 14, 2013, 10:00:18 PM: Quote from: Kale on February 14, 2013, 09:24:49 PM
^Didn't they fail the last time they tried that?
True but I think Notch never did make that "Scrolls" game
Title: Re: Makers of Warhammer 40k bully others trying to use the term "Space Marine"
Post by: X on February 15, 2013, 04:50:57 AM: I had no idea that the term 'Space Marine' was out of the 1930s! First time I ever heard of it was from 'Aliens'. I agree wholeheartedly that this nonsense of suing someone because they're using a term that's not copyright is stupid as shit. What happens if someday we actually have space marines? Will the game companies try to sue the pants off the military for using it? It's nothing more then a spoiled little child abusing his/her rights because they think they can. And I think it's pretty clear that the makers of Warhammer dropped out of school before they could learn this important lesson. Bend them over and whip 'em good with a meter stick I say!