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2010/12/27 03:17:56
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Warning From Magnus? Not Listening!
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The IP banhammer cares not if you cause harm
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Emperors Faithful wrote:
metallifan wrote:Maybe it's not the ROFLSTOMP that Americans are used to...
Best summary of foeign policy. Ever.
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2010/12/27 03:21:55
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Ollanius Pius - Savior of the Emperor
Gathering the Informations.
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Jaon wrote:So wait off topic, how long ago was TSOALR killed and why exactly? not like it was doing any harm?
It wasn't "killed".
Basically: The guy approached Games Workshop asking for permission to compile the strips and sell them, for his own profit, as a hardbound collected volume.
Games Workshop told him no.
I think -roughly- a year later, the guy just decided to stop doing the strip.
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2010/12/27 11:19:08
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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[MOD]
Making Stuff
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corpsesarefun wrote:The book probably would have given him the income to keep it going, it was just murder via proxy.
It's not at all the same thing as having him shut down for IP infraction. All they did was deny him permission to make a profit off their IP... which they're well within their rights to do. Particularly if they are in the business of publishing books of their own, and like to choose just what gets published.
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2010/12/27 12:02:32
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Screaming Banshee
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And ultimately Germany is supposedly to blame for GW legal.
Some stupid shizz about having to pro-actively protect your IP if it's used by others or else you lose it... bah!
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2010/12/27 12:15:47
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Lord of the Fleet
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Henners91 wrote:And ultimately Germany is supposedly to blame for GW legal.
Some stupid shizz about having to pro-actively protect your IP if it's used by others or else you lose it... bah!
Yeah, they're playing a delicate game with their copyright of the word space marine because they're terrified of it being made a generic term, too. (Thank you, Ridley Scott)
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Fate is in heaven, armor is on the chest, accomplishment is in the feet. - Nagao Kagetora
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2010/12/27 12:19:03
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Wrathful Warlord Titan Commander
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Henners91 wrote:And ultimately Germany is supposedly to blame for GW legal.
Some stupid shizz about having to pro-actively protect your IP if it's used by others or else you lose it... bah!
Maybe research before pointing at someone?
IP is part of EU-laws and your Island-dwelling company isn't endangered by German Law.
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In dedicatio imperatum ultra articulo mortis.
H.B.M.C :
We were wrong. It's not the 40k End Times. It's the Trademarkening.
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2010/12/27 13:15:22
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Journeyman Inquisitor with Visions of the Warp
York/London(for weekends) oh for the glory of the british rail industry
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BaronIveagh wrote:Yeah, they're playing a delicate game with their copyright of the word space marine because they're terrified of it being made a generic term, too. (Thank you, Ridley Scott)
to be honest 'space marine' should be a generic term seeing as it was first coined by Robert A. Heinlein in misfit, not GW
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Relictors: 1500pts
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Avatar 720 wrote:Eau de Ulthwé - The new fragrance; by Eldrad.
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2010/12/27 13:41:55
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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[MOD]
Making Stuff
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Henners91 wrote:And ultimately Germany is supposedly to blame for GW legal.
Some stupid shizz about having to pro-actively protect your IP if it's used by others or else you lose it... bah!
Germany is not at all to blame for GW legal. No idea what you're basing that on.
BaronIveagh wrote:Yeah, they're playing a delicate game with their copyright of the word space marine because they're terrified of it being made a generic term, too. (Thank you, Ridley Scott)
Copyright has nothing to do with names. Trademarks cover names, in order to stop other people from using the same name in a similar context. It doesn't stop other people from using the name 'Space Marine'... it just stops them from using it in relation to something too similar to GW's Space Marines.
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2010/12/27 14:29:14
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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The Hammer of Witches
A new day, a new time zone.
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Right - there's no need to complain that GW is going to stomp all over your sci-fi setting where the USSMC are prominent, unless they all wear beaky helmets, studded shoulder pads, and die in the name of the Emperor. 
insaniak wrote:Henners91 wrote:And ultimately Germany is supposedly to blame for GW legal.
Some stupid shizz about having to pro-actively protect your IP if it's used by others or else you lose it... bah!
Germany is not at all to blame for GW legal. No idea what you're basing that on.
Sounds like an internet-manged regurgitation of the issues surrounding the blocking of the German Damnatus fan film.
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2010/12/27 14:43:38
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Lord of the Fleet
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1hadhq wrote:Henners91 wrote:And ultimately Germany is supposedly to blame for GW legal.
Some stupid shizz about having to pro-actively protect your IP if it's used by others or else you lose it... bah!
Maybe research before pointing at someone?
IP is part of EU-laws and your Island-dwelling company isn't endangered by German Law.
Actually, no. Most of EU is under Berne, however, some countries attach extra requirements to it. So, while GW would not lose their IP in England, it's conceivable that they might in some other countries. This would open the way to competion being permitted to produce 40k products, which is what has GW's undies in a bunch. I know that as IP is now considered a form of 'property' in some countries, some enterprising individuals have tried using abandoned property laws to try and have the government seize some IPs.
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Fate is in heaven, armor is on the chest, accomplishment is in the feet. - Nagao Kagetora
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2010/12/27 16:18:55
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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[DCM]
Coastal Bliss in the Shadow of Sizewell
Suffolk, where the Aliens roam.
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The German connection was to do with that film they wanted to release a few years back. Damnatus I think it was. Fan made flick.
I can't remember the exact details, but there's something odd in German copyrights law about if the film was released the fans would hold rights or something. So GW told them nope, can't release, and there was nerd rage on the internets.
Something like that anyways. I wasn't really paying attention. 
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"That's not an Ork, its a girl.." - Last words of High General Daran Ul'tharem, battle of Ursha VII.
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2010/12/27 21:29:32
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:The German connection was to do with that film they wanted to release a few years back. Damnatus I think it was. Fan made flick.
The claim being made was that Germany is somehow responsible for GW legal acting the way they do. Given that GW legal have been actively enforcing their IP for decades now, it's unlikely that Damnatus was the reason for it unless there was some sort of freaky time-travel situation involved.
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2010/12/27 21:58:34
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Don't forget Bungie and Microsoft for making Halo.
Genetically engineered super soldiers with HUDs in their helmets, Jump Packs, Assault Cannons, the ability to jump over fast moving vehicles, power swords, "gravity" hammers, and survive insane amounts of damage...
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2010/12/27 22:05:02
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Mekboy Hammerin' Somethin'
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Yet I die from the little orange runt of the enemy... from a green glowing "Plasma Pistol"...Darn little bugger...
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Thunderfrog wrote:
+1 Str for like 5 points? To autocannons or assault cannons? Hell yea. Then the Reinforced Aegis upgrade for free AND the ability to ignore stunned shaken.. pretty much for free..
Other Dreadnaughts should just go somewhere and be a toaster.
Mattieu~~~~ It's not that eldar are bad, it's that they require a lot of intergration between units. Also, that doesnt prove anything other than GW has a huge hard-on for marines, and, given the option between making a xeno the best psykers or making a marine the best psyker, they will 9 times out of 10 choose the marine.
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Tzeentchling9 wrote:Mephy can't be swept. He is still a marine so he has the, "And They Shall Never Get Removed From The Table After Losing Combat Like Everyone Else Because They Are The Poster Boys" special rule.
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2010/12/27 22:07:08
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Renegade Inquisitor de Marche
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Footsloggin wrote:Yet I die from the little orange runt of the enemy... from a green glowing "Plasma Pistol"...Darn little bugger...
Plasma pistols in both 40k and Halo are basically a  slap to vehicles
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2010/12/28 00:41:51
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard
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GW suing Disney.
Please.
The last thing we need is for Disney to get any bigger.
It's already like Sark from TRON (the original movie) after he cops TRON's disc in the head and the MCP revives him.
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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
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2010/12/28 04:05:07
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Lord of the Fleet
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chromedog wrote:GW suing Disney.
Please.
The last thing we need is for Disney to get any bigger.
It's already like Sark from TRON (the original movie) after he cops TRON's disc in the head and the MCP revives him.
Actually, Disney has been successfully sued in the past, such Luxo vs Disney when Disney started selling knock offs of Luxos lamp designs. And were dumb enough to actually call it the Luxo Jr.
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Fate is in heaven, armor is on the chest, accomplishment is in the feet. - Nagao Kagetora
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2010/12/28 05:02:51
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Jaon wrote:how long ago was TSOALR killed and why exactly?
It was never killed, as such. The creator just wasn't allowed to make money off it, since it was GW's intellectual property. So it became not worth his time.
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"'players must agree how they are going to select their armies, and if any restrictions apply to the number and type of models they can use."
This is an actual rule in the actual rulebook. Quit whining about how you can imagine someone's army touching you in a bad place and play by the actual rules.
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2010/12/28 05:27:03
Subject: Re:GW should sue Pixar?
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Mutated Chosen Chaos Marine
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2010/12/28 12:15:17
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Member of a Lodge? I Can't Say
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Why hasn't this thread been Mod-locked already? Please end this farce.
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actiondan wrote:According to popular belief I cannot use drop pods because only the Imperium can organize itself enough to put 10 men in a container and fire it at a planet.
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2010/12/28 20:58:36
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Making Stuff
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Brother Heinrich wrote:Why hasn't this thread been Mod-locked already?
Because there has been no real reason to lock it...
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2010/12/28 21:00:49
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Lord of the Fleet
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insaniak wrote:Brother Heinrich wrote:Why hasn't this thread been Mod-locked already?
Because there has been no real reason to lock it...
Of course, now that ha been said, the reverberations will spread throughout the forum, calling trolls like blood in the water calls sharks...
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Fate is in heaven, armor is on the chest, accomplishment is in the feet. - Nagao Kagetora
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2010/12/29 13:05:59
Subject: GW should sue Pixar?
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Screaming Banshee
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1hadhq wrote:Henners91 wrote:And ultimately Germany is supposedly to blame for GW legal.
Some stupid shizz about having to pro-actively protect your IP if it's used by others or else you lose it... bah!
Maybe research before pointing at someone?
IP is part of EU-laws and your Island-dwelling company isn't endangered by German Law.
As has been said by others, I've got this perception from a 'regurgitation' of what happened to Damnatus; the WU didn't exactly have much to say about that.
And yes, we dwell on a merry island. I'd chastise you for going OT with your geographic commentaries but it is indeed wonderful.
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2010/12/29 13:33:55
Subject: Re:GW should sue Pixar?
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Whiteshield Conscript Trooper
That place
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If GW would sue pixar, there would be a massive plunge in funding. thereby, denying us a better WH40k movie.
I absolutely hated the Ultramarines movie.
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The Undying Spawn of Shub-Niggurath