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Reply To: GW legal threat forces War Banner into a name change

March 31, 2019 at 5:45 pm #1370064

limburger

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GW does what any other business of sufficient size has to do : sent in the lawyers to clear out anyone and anything infringing on their IP. War banner would be doing the exact same thing if they were the big dog and GW was the annoying pest that was entering their turf.

I seriously doubt this would be winnable for War banner even if they had the resources to compete against GW.

Apple Corps vs Apple Computer :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

Different fields of industry and they still managed to cause legal trouble the moment Apple decided to publish music …

Then there’s this :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusing_similarity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counteraction_principle

Jumping on the ‘I hate GW’ train is easy, but we still don’t know the exact wording of the letter that GW sent to these guys.

Dark peak Games is a heck of an improvement over war hammer *eh* banner.

The law is the law. Whether or not that ‘sounds alike’ matters in the digital era is not relevant, because the law says it matters.
You want things changed ?
Then vote for the people who do want to change these types of aspects of current laws.
Sad news is that with the exception of the Pirate party the vast majority will vote in favour of big business.
(as was recently proven by the Article 13 in the EU)