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 Ravenous D wrote:
...which basically means they more then likely just handed her a big settlement.

I doubt it. I just think she was advised by her attorney to just keep her mouth closed to avoid future litigation and now she wants to concentrate on her book sales rather than her legal troubles.

 Ravenous D wrote:
There is actually a video interview with the Author of "spots the space marine" and she doesn't give a lot of details or go into what happened with GW, which basically means they more then likely just handed her a big settlement.

Sorry, but the *only* way GW would pay the Author is if she had indicated a counter suit was coming and it would never be defined as "big".

Some mitigating factors here:
1. The book was essentially an unknown with very very few sales.
2. She received essentially free press out of this and her sales shot up immediately after it was put online.
3. Going any further on her, or GWs part, was going to result in a fair amount of legal fees that would easily eclipse any amount of money possible to recover out of this.

If I was the attorney, I'd tell the author to keep quiet and be thankful that GW had done this and fairly quickly backed off. For once, someone other than an attorney actually benefited.

Natfka isn't simply expanding into other game news because of GW, he has been doing Dark Age info off and on for a few.months now.

He also played other games at Valhalla, and he wants to cover them as well.

It is all directly under him now, so if they want to do another notice, they will have to do so to him direct. He tried to contact the, even through back door channels, but failed. They just didn't want to talk to him.

It is getting close now to the new Faeit 212, because you now get a snow covered forest when typing in the new address, as opposed to the "nothing here" notice there used to be...

clively wrote:

 Ravenous D wrote:
There is actually a video interview with the Author of "spots the space marine" and she doesn't give a lot of details or go into what happened with GW, which basically means they more then likely just handed her a big settlement.

Sorry, but the *only* way GW would pay the Author is if she had indicated a counter suit was coming and it would never be defined as "big".

Some mitigating factors here:
1. The book was essentially an unknown with very very few sales.
2. She received essentially free press out of this and her sales shot up immediately after it was put online.
3. Going any further on her, or GWs part, was going to result in a fair amount of legal fees that would easily eclipse any amount of money possible to recover out of this.

If I was the attorney, I'd tell the author to keep quiet and be thankful that GW had done this and fairly quickly backed off. For once, someone other than an attorney actually benefited.

I too think it is unlikely GW paid her any money, but for very different reasons. The situation was resolved by Amazon being informed that it had no earthly reason to remove the content. Over. Done. Nothing more to discuss unless the author decided to sue for damages. But she had no real reason to. There was no longer a threat, the situation was resolved, and her counsel was pro bono.

GW merely got lucky. If she had filed a suit against GW, there would be a record of it, and if she had, GW would have had every reason in the world to write her a fat, fat check to get clear of the situation and keep it quiet. There was so much bad press and GW was so solidly in the wrong that it would have been well worth 6 figures to get clear of the situation. Not only was GW facing the possibility of stiff damages, but GW would have almost certainly lost the Space Marine trademark. Imagine Kirby putting that in a financial report.

But, that probably is not what happened. I have not looked to see if a suit was filed, but I have not heard there was, so I am assuming there was not. Someone feel free to correct me if my assumption is incorrect. If I was her lawyer, I would not have told her to be thankful GW backed off. I would tell her to be thankful Amazon did the right thing, and tell her that if GW bothers her about it again, we'll sue them until they kiss your feet, beg for forgiveness, and pay you enough money to putna down payment on a new house and turn Spots into an 8 book series.