Bethesda Going After Notch, Infringing on Their Property
Bethesda doesn’t like to screw around, so when the executives of the company were out the other night hammering tequila shots at the strip club and someone brought up a new game called “Scrolls”, the assembled minds rushed to the nearest Blackberry to inform their lawyers that they best get off their candy asses and deal with this situation.
Consequently Notch, the mountain man behind Minecraft, received word from Bethesda that he best change the name of his company’s next game lest the public at large confuse the indie project with Bethesda’s multi-million dollar superstar Elder Scrolls series. I can definitely see where they’re coming from.
What will happen next is anyone’s guess, on the one hand this all seems utterly ridiculous and it’s hard to believe Bethesda will seriously pursue any further, especially in light of the laughter that has reigned down on them from all sides of the gaming community.
But then on the other hand… well, would anyone be all that surprised to see a bunch of rich people making a huge stink about something so asinine? Isn’t that basically what rich people do all the time anyway?
This whole thing is just ridiculous. If the game was called Elder Scrolls…they would have a better chance. It’s like if a game was called Republic and EA/Bioware sued them for being too close to The Old Republic.
I think that Notch took a very tempered response to this in his post saying that this, “is partly just their lawyers being lawyers, and a result of trademark law being the way it is”. I don’t think it will come to anything.
first of all, who refers any of the elder scrolls games as elder scrolls? i call them oblivion and skyrim
second of all, why do copyright laws make the public look retarded?
Serves that evil doer right, someone needs to stand up to notch. Although He probably won’t show up for court if hes on another vacation.
I’m very curious as to how far Bethseda is actually going to take this. I heard one solid theory that they are simply doing this to have proof in the future that they have defended their trademark. Still, it seems odd going after Notch.
I know. You know. I know that you know. I know that you know that I know. omega uk
We must hang together, or we’ll be hanged separately. replica omega
OMFG! Really? I mean seriously? For One…Its not like Notch is using “The Older Scrolls” or something similar…He is using SCROLLS! Bethesda does NOT own the fucking word Scrolls! Its not yours its not anybody’s claimed word… If that were true then I now claim the word Fuck! If anyone uses it…Your sued! Oh yeah don’t use any words relative like screw, sex, or any other word or your sued too! Because apparently People would be so fucking stupid to get the 2 games mixed up..Really Bethesda? Really? That’s your reasoning? Its not like hes making the same photo-art as you or even the same full name… So STFU and get over it!!!