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Re: Blizzard Sues Over DOTA TM |
Feb 10, 2012, 19:17 |
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LightAssassin wrote on Feb 10, 2012, 17:41:
Prez wrote on Feb 10, 2012, 11:53:
The only person who morally (I've long since ceased to give a shit about the legal aspect of copyright) owns the rights to the DotA name is the mod maker, and he is nowhere to be found in this mess. Given that, as far as I am concerned all of the corporate tards and their sleazeball lawyers on both sides can die in a fire. Screaming. With bloody diarhea.
That would be "Eul" who now works for valve... Though he got his idea off a SC craft mod, but he was the first to use the Dota name.
That should really be the end of it right there. With both the original creator and the guy who popularized it (IceFrog) working at Valve, Blizzard's grasp on the term is tenuous at best. DOTA has taken on a meaning beyond the acronym, so it shouldn't matter at all that it refers to WC3 characters, and the genre it created has spread so far beyond any of Blizzard's properties over the years that most players of MOBA games probably have no clue of the origin. IMO, this is just Blizzard being upset that they didn't think to make DOTA 2 first, what with all their drawn-out milking of three established franchises.
It would have been so easy for Blizzard to trademark it years ago (according to their arguments, they've acted as if they owned it all this time), but now that they have competition with potential establishment of claim, they might be SOL. |
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Feb 10, 11:57 |
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Feb 10, 12:17 |
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Feb 11, 03:29 |
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Feb 11, 06:23 |
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Feb 11, 06:50 |
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Feb 11, 10:05 |
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Feb 11, 11:55 |
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Feb 10, 13:07 |
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Feb 10, 17:41 |
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Feb 10, 10:41 |
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Feb 10, 12:19 |
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Feb 10, 15:55 |
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Feb 10, 16:42 |
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Feb 10, 19:54 |
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Feb 11, 12:16 |
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Feb 11, 14:27 |
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Feb 11, 14:45 |
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Feb 11, 17:28 |
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Feb 12, 02:46 |
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Feb 12, 10:04 |
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Feb 12, 11:41 |
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Feb 12, 09:17 |
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