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Reply To: Greenstuff World Vs Sword N Steele

January 2, 2020 at 6:03 pm #1468002

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I think you and I agree @limburger with the exception of what the copyright was on, it was on the name of the product rather than the product itself. a paint that changes colour, not copyrightable as they’ve been around for ages, but the name with specific capitalisation is copyrightable. the iPhone is a phone. I cannot copyright a phone. but I can copyright parts of the overall product, like image, name etc. if I release a generic phone but call it an iPhone I will still get pursued for infringement and rightly so.

sword n steel got harshly treated by youtube because GSW rightly ID’d a product in the video as being in breach of copyright, SnS knew nothing about it but Vallejo and GSW apparently did. GSW apparently following the obvious step of flagging it with the easy to use feedback and youtube bots did the rest.

It is clear that this is a GSW/Vallejo problem but then there is always fallout, collateral and the only winner is the lawyer.

I just don’t understand why people are bashing GSW for attempting to protect their interests in the way they have as its obviously the right thing to do. equally I don’t understand why nobody is levelling any criticism at Vallejo for infringement (if it is proven to have happened), they seem to be smelling of roses right now when really they (allegedly) are the wrongdoer here.