Marvel Sues over City of Heroes [Nov 12, 2004, 10:40 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Marvel sues two companies over role-playing game is an article announcing
the Comic Book Publisher is suing NCsoft and Cryptic Studios over City of
Heroes. No word on whether Matt Murdock is handling Marvel's case:
The lawsuit claims South Korea-based NCSoft and San Jose-based Cryptic Studios violated Marvel's trademark characters in their game City of Heroes. Marvel seeks unspecified damages and an injunction against the two companies to stop using its characters.
The personal computer game enables players to design superheroes' look and abilities and then battle against other players' characters in a virtual city. Like similar so-called massively multiplayer role-playing games where thousands of players can be playing simultaneously at any given time, City of Heroes claims to offer a myriad of combinations so that no two players' characters are exactly the same.
But in its lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, Marvel argues that the game's character creation engine easily allows players to design characters that are virtual copies of its own superheros, including "The Incredible Hulk."
Marvel doesn't care about The Incredibles because companies care more about style than substance. If you're stylistically similar to a copyrighted concept in how something looks, people get pissed. if you're substantially the same beneath the surface, where it acts and thinks like a certain character..in the words of Marge Simpson "Who gives a bibble! Gabba gabba hey."
So much is about selling style over substance nowadays, that's how these companies make a living. I think it sucks that no one can build upon a trademarked intellectual property concept because of all these laws.
So much is about selling style over substance nowadays, that's how these companies make a living. I think it sucks that no one can build upon a trademarked intellectual property concept because of all these laws.
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