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2013/03/22 21:39:17
Subject: Kaiju Combat Kickstarter on hold after WotC lawsuit
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Hangin' with Gork & Mork
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A Kickstarter project for an indie game called Kaiju Combat: Giant Monsters has been put on hold, due to a trademark disagreement with game publisher Wizards of the Coast. Soon after raising $112,513 for its $100k goal, developer Sunstone Games received an infringement notice from Wizards of the Coast. The notice claimed the name of Sunstone's game violated Wizard's "Kaijudo" trademark, which refers to a collectible card game based on a Hasbro TV show.
Sunstone says its lawyer contacted Wizards last December to argue that "Kaiju" (a Japanese word that means "monster") had nothing at all to do with "Kaijudo," and they believed the matter had been settled. But this past week Wizards took the matter to Kickstarter directly, which took the project offline, claiming it was "the subject of an intellectual property dispute."
Sunstone's owner Simon Strange says he's working as quickly as possible to get the project reinstated. Going through court costs, he says, would be prohibitive on the company's "limited development budget." Strange adds he's "hopeful" that Sunstone won't have to change the game's name.
Kaiju is a fairly generic term, so I don't know if this will hold up.
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2013/03/22 21:41:26
Subject: Kaiju Combat Kickstarter on hold after WotC lawsuit
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Secret Force Behind the Rise of the Tau
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Yeah. Kaiju is the name of an entire film genre.
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2013/03/22 21:50:49
Subject: Kaiju Combat Kickstarter on hold after WotC lawsuit
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Lord of the Fleet
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This reminds me of the Scrolls Minecraft debate with Bethesda
And no one even likes kaijudo! Totally inferior version of the awesome ott Duelmasters
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2013/03/22 21:58:10
Subject: Kaiju Combat Kickstarter on hold after WotC lawsuit
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Secret Force Behind the Rise of the Tau
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Except Scrolls was a clear rip off of Elder Scrolls Oblivion's artwork. Almost copy pasted actually from the constellations the player can choose from the beginning of the game. While the games have nothing in common, those images being the first ones released for the game were not a good idea.
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2013/03/22 22:50:54
Subject: Kaiju Combat Kickstarter on hold after WotC lawsuit
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Kaiju is a generic term. If WotC wins this, it'll be challenged by numerous others I imagine.
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2013/03/22 23:43:44
Subject: Kaiju Combat Kickstarter on hold after WotC lawsuit
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Lord of the Fleet
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 LordofHats wrote:
Except Scrolls was a clear rip off of Elder Scrolls Oblivion's artwork. Almost copy pasted actually from the constellations the player can choose from the beginning of the game. While the games have nothing in common, those images being the first ones released for the game were not a good idea.
Oh thats what happened? Well I apologize then, I went off internet talk that just kept on screaming THEY SUED BECAUSE THEY COPYWRITTED THE WORD SCROLLS. Curse you one sided conversations 
 Melissia wrote:Kaiju is a generic term. If WotC wins this, it'll be challenged by numerous others I imagine.
Yea, plenty of people use kaiju. Theres a miniatures company called Kaiju kaos
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2013/03/22 23:46:11
Subject: Kaiju Combat Kickstarter on hold after WotC lawsuit
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Secret Force Behind the Rise of the Tau
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 kenshin620 wrote: LordofHats wrote:
Except Scrolls was a clear rip off of Elder Scrolls Oblivion's artwork. Almost copy pasted actually from the constellations the player can choose from the beginning of the game. While the games have nothing in common, those images being the first ones released for the game were not a good idea.
Oh thats what happened? Well I apologize then, I went off internet talk that just kept on screaming THEY SUED BECAUSE THEY COPYWRITTED THE WORD SCROLLS. Curse you one sided conversations
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Yeah. That was the grounds on which they launched the suit (trademark infringement) but had the game's initial concept art not looked so out of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion I doubt the suit would have ever been brought. EDIT: It probably didn't help that Notch wasn't the most popular guy on the net at the time.
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