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How about Cease and Desist Games as a new company name.

Everyone jumping on the Cease & Desist bandwagon, except GW. They offered a polite request to change the name and came to an agreement with Footsore. The only C & D was from that app company.

Ginjitzu wrote:
I wouldn't expect any decisions made in US courts to have any bearing on countries with more reasonable judiciaries. Would anyone ever really expect a British court to equate a corporation with a person for instance? I doubt it. Some things are the bizarre preserve of the United States of America, only, though that's not to say that in this instance, I don't actually disagree that Games-Workshop would have had a good case against War Banner.

Corporations are legal persons under U.K. law. The same is true pretty much everywhere.

Are we talking about Peak, as in the company whose parent got in trouble for that Mafia Wars crap at the Bay Area or Windy City(forgot which)? Should've just went with the name; company is probably grasping for straws at this point.

 Excommunicatus wrote:

Ginjitzu wrote:
I wouldn't expect any decisions made in US courts to have any bearing on countries with more reasonable judiciaries. Would anyone ever really expect a British court to equate a corporation with a person for instance? I doubt it. Some things are the bizarre preserve of the United States of America, only, though that's not to say that in this instance, I don't actually disagree that Games-Workshop would have had a good case against War Banner.

Corporations are legal persons under U.K. law. The same is true pretty much everywhere.

Interesting. I looked into it, and I'm embarrassed by the extent of how utterly wrong I was about this. I had no idea that the concept of corporate personhood was so common and well established. I also had no idea that the notion was so reasonable when one considers that the purpose is that "people should not be deprived of their constitutional rights when they act collectively." I withdraw my comment and apologize for it's snide tone.


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 Theophony wrote:
How about Cease and Desist Games as a new company name.

Also, great idea!

Any update to this?

I'm super curious because I can't find any source that says GW sent a C&D.

They didn't. GW just asked them if they would (no lawyers involved) and they agreed. Peak sent the C&D when they tried to turn to Dark Peak. So the thread title is wrong.

Their announcement is on page 1, and is copied from here (which has been updated to reference Peak Games).

 Excommunicatus wrote:

Ginjitzu wrote:
I wouldn't expect any decisions made in US courts to have any bearing on countries with more reasonable judiciaries. Would anyone ever really expect a British court to equate a corporation with a person for instance? I doubt it. Some things are the bizarre preserve of the United States of America, only, though that's not to say that in this instance, I don't actually disagree that Games-Workshop would have had a good case against War Banner.

Corporations are legal persons under U.K. law. The same is true pretty much everywhere.

As somebody once said, I'll believe corporations are human when Texas executes one.

Not in the least surprised that GW are up to their old antics. Yeah, they might have bunged people a few extra starter sets here and there, and yeah, they might have a fluffy FB page, but the dark heart is still there. They'll never get another penny off me again, that's for sure.

Did you...actually read the thread before you soapboxed? no..?

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

 Excommunicatus wrote:

Ginjitzu wrote:
I wouldn't expect any decisions made in US courts to have any bearing on countries with more reasonable judiciaries. Would anyone ever really expect a British court to equate a corporation with a person for instance? I doubt it. Some things are the bizarre preserve of the United States of America, only, though that's not to say that in this instance, I don't actually disagree that Games-Workshop would have had a good case against War Banner.

Corporations are legal persons under U.K. law. The same is true pretty much everywhere.

As somebody once said, I'll believe corporations are human when Texas executes one.

Not in the least surprised that GW are up to their old antics. Yeah, they might have bunged people a few extra starter sets here and there, and yeah, they might have a fluffy FB page, but the dark heart is still there. They'll never get another penny off me again, that's for sure.

They're not humans. They're legal persons.

Entirely different.

 Excommunicatus wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

 Excommunicatus wrote:

Ginjitzu wrote:
I wouldn't expect any decisions made in US courts to have any bearing on countries with more reasonable judiciaries. Would anyone ever really expect a British court to equate a corporation with a person for instance? I doubt it. Some things are the bizarre preserve of the United States of America, only, though that's not to say that in this instance, I don't actually disagree that Games-Workshop would have had a good case against War Banner.

Corporations are legal persons under U.K. law. The same is true pretty much everywhere.

As somebody once said, I'll believe corporations are human when Texas executes one.

Not in the least surprised that GW are up to their old antics. Yeah, they might have bunged people a few extra starter sets here and there, and yeah, they might have a fluffy FB page, but the dark heart is still there. They'll never get another penny off me again, that's for sure.

They're not humans. They're legal persons.

Entirely different.

what it MEANS is a corperation, as a whole, can have the law applied toi it as a person, a corperation can break the law, get sued, sue someone etc. without this dictinction you'd not be able to sue Megacorp Inc when they poisoned your watertable