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Neutral Facts Here
Pasting from that link:
~ First, Bethesda bought the rights to create 3 Fallout games from Interplay. This is called the ELA. ~ In 2007 Bethesda then purchased the full Fallout Intelectual property (this sale is refered to as the asset purchase agreement or APA). As a part of this sale Interplay (believed) they licensed back the rights to create a Fallout MMO and market the existing Fallout games. ~ The terms of this license said they needed to start "full scale production" and have $US30 million in funding by April 4 2009., amongst other provisions. ~ In April 2009 Bethesda gave notice to Interplay that they were terminating the license, believing that Interplay had neither the funding, nor started full scale development. ~ Bethesda cite Interplay's own Financial documents as their evidence that these conditions where not met. ~ Bethesda then filed suit to prevent further development, and sales of the existing Fallout games. ~ Bethesda failed in an injunction to get Interplay to stop making Fallout Online pending the lawsuit result. ~ Both sides agreed on Bethesda's instigation to stop the parts of the case referring to the older Fallout games. ~ Bethesda amended its case to argue that the TLA only gave Interplay the rights to make a MMO named Fallout, rather than a game including the elements of Fallout that make the game what it is, like the Brotherhood, Mutants, etc (these are covered by copyright, not trademark). ~ Interplay in turn have argued that this means that the TLA is ambiguous and therefore invalid; and as they argue the TLA is a part of the APA, the whole sale of Fallout is therefore invalid. ~ The Bench (not Jury) trial started Dec 12.
Please READ the RED parts.
There is NO FUCKIN' WAY one can argue that Bethesda used Litigation to stop Inteplay, BEFORE contractual agreements were not met. The timeline speaks for itself.
So there is no "BULLYING" by Bethesda. Any BS things that were tacked on, was stupid lawyers "jockeying" to add on BS, and have been dropped for the most part.
The bottom line is in the APA and TLA, and a court will decide who is in the right.
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