Blizzard Challenges Valve Over DOTA Trademark.

[Njaard]

The people saying that DotA should remain with the community obviously don't know the DotA community. It's almost an unanimous approval for what Valve and IceFrog are doing.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

I'm surprised it's taken them this long.

I think Valve are in the wrong this time. DOTA is a Warcraft mod, and has no link to anything Valve has ever originated. If anyone has a claim on the name it's Blizzard.

Or the original creators of the mod, not Blizzard themselves.

However, since they decide NOT to work with Valve, Valve has even less claim on it than Blizzard. I also honestly thought the "Blizzard Dota" was one of their April Fool's joke, I guess I was mistaken.

 

[Weaver]

Legally, the person who created a work own's its IP even if they didn't trademark the work. As such, only Eul and Guinsoo (who, hilariously enough, works at Riot Games (League of Legends) ) can claim the copyright to the work.

If they don't contest valve, I don't see why Blizz can. Unless there is a clause in the map editor which states they own everything anyone makes in it.

IceFrog works at Valve now (on DOTA2) but he started modding it in 2005; 2 years after Eul's original inception of the game, and his work was just a refinement of the large strides Guinsoo made in turning DOTA into what we know today.

 

[Njaard]

Legally, the person who created a work own's its IP even if they didn't trademark the work. As such, only Eul and Guinsoo (who, hilariously enough, works at Riot Games (League of Legends) ) can claim the copyright to the work.

If they don't contest valve, I don't see why Blizz can. Unless there is a clause in the map editor which states they own everything anyone makes in it.

IceFrog works at Valve now (on DOTA2) but he started modding it in 2005; 2 years after Eul's original inception of the game, and his work was just a refinement of the large strides Guinsoo made in turning DOTA into what we know today.

Eul is allegedly working at Valve, too.

 

[Weaver]

Legally, the person who created a work own's its IP even if they didn't trademark the work. As such, only Eul and Guinsoo (who, hilariously enough, works at Riot Games (League of Legends) ) can claim the copyright to the work.

If they don't contest valve, I don't see why Blizz can. Unless there is a clause in the map editor which states they own everything anyone makes in it.

IceFrog works at Valve now (on DOTA2) but he started modding it in 2005; 2 years after Eul's original inception of the game, and his work was just a refinement of the large strides Guinsoo made in turning DOTA into what we know today.

Eul is allegedly working at Valve, too.

If that's true this is probably going to be a short case.