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Morning Legal Briefs

[Feb 07, 2013, 09:56 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Games Workshop trademark bullying goes thermonuclear: now they say you can't use "space marine" in science fiction. Thanks Ant via Slashdot.
North Korea propaganda taken off YouTube after Activision complaint. Thanks Hilded.

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Re: Morning Legal Briefs

Feb 7, 2013, 10:32

TheEmissary

Space Marine is such a generic term and one that would have likely been independently created many times. Militaries around the world have Marines or the equivalent thereof and extrapolating the future would suggest we would have them in space. Is their problem with calling them "Space Marines" or the description and depiction of them. If its just vaguaries what is to stop Superman owners from going after every series that implement the equivalent super hero. what about the Tolkien estate going after any one that has a high fantasy series dealing with elves or a magical ring. I can see a problem if it was using very specific elements of the lore. Interesting Wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_marine This shows the name being used before Games Workshop used it. This comment was edited on Feb 7, 2013, 10:37.

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Comment [quote="TheEmissary"Feb 7, 2013, 10:32]Space Marine is such a generic term and one that would have likely been independently created many times. Militaries around the world have Marines or the equivalent thereof and extrapolating the future would suggest we would have them in space. Is their problem with calling them "Space Marines" or the description and depiction of them. If its just vaguaries what is to stop Superman owners from going after every series that implement the equivalent super hero. what about the Tolkien estate going after any one that has a high fantasy series dealing with elves or a magical ring. I can see a problem if it was using very specific elements of the lore. Interesting Wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_marine This shows the name being used before Games Workshop used it. [/quote]

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