Recent content by ThatOneChick

Ahhh, I see now... Bethesda already owns the trademark for The Elder Scrolls. They have since 1994 I believe.

If he said he was going to give up the name then he would have said just that. Instead he said he wouldn't trademark the name, but he still wants to use it and he's even willing to put a subtitle on it. The very, very first thing Bethesda did was send a cease and desist. Mojang did not cease...

It's like after they filed the Minecraft one, they suddenly realized there's a whole different list for video games. Who knows, but Mojang really does need better lawyers. Well, I really don't know a whole lot about the Edge business, but wasn't it about a game COMPANY with Edge in their...

Yeah, I was just saying even without the whole TES thing it'd still be rejected and I'm pretty sure Minecraft is going to rejected too unless they're really thinking of releasing Minecraft brand defibrillators... The more I look at this, the more I think it's just Notch and his lawyers...

But a book series (like Harry Potter), movie series (like PotC), and video game series (like TES) are brands. That title is how you know it's apart of a series like how seeing Fender on a guitar lets you know it's a Fender brand guitar. TES may have several different games to them, but they're...

No, I couldn't make a card based fantasy game (that's completely different so I don't violate copyright laws) with the same title as Mojang's because of their pending trademark. If it failed because of it being too broad (not even counting the whole TES thing), I think they'd have a few days to...

Actually, I don't Scroll's trademark has gone through completely yet. Right by Owner, it says (APPLICANT). On the Elder Scrolls' one, it says (REGISTRANT). It can take forever to get a trademark, but as long as it's pending, no one else can use it. What all of this is, is Bethesda trying to...

No, it's all about protecting the trademark the already have. Notch says he's willing to drop the trademark but he still wants to use the name Scrolls. With or without a subtitle, that still violates Bethesda's trademark.

People seem to be confusing Copyright with Trademark. Copyright deals with protecting the work as a whole while Trademark deals with protecting the 'image' of it. If someone created a game exactly like Oblivion and just changed the names around but titled it something completely different...