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For example, can GW send you a C&D if you use, say, the Warhammer 40,000 logo on your website? What if you have the disclaimers provided by GW on your site? Would having Google Ads affect this?

It doesn't matter if you have a disclaimer, you still need their permission to use it first otherwise they'll see it as using their IP without their permission and give out a C&D.

So what if you just have Text saying "Warhammer 40,000" (which is what they have trademarked) they can send the lawyers after you?

Waaaaaaagh! wrote:So what if you just have Text saying "Warhammer 40,000" (which is what they have trademarked) they can send the lawyers after you?

Disclaimer means nothing.
It just basically means " i acknowledge this TM item doesnt belong to me , but im still going to use it without permission anyways "

Usually fair use applies in academic use (essays), free press (reviews, news, etc...), and a few other situations.

Derivative works is not covered in fair use in any way, even if it's free.

There's a whole section of the GW website dedicated to explaining what you can and can't do with their IP.

lord_blackfang wrote:There's a whole section of the GW website dedicated to explaining what *they think* you can and can't do with their IP.

Corrected the typo...

Osbad wrote:

lord_blackfang wrote:There's a whole section of the GW website dedicated to explaining what *they think* you can and can't do with their IP.

Corrected the typo...

There's nothing in there particularily inaccurate under British or American trademark and copyright law.

Phazer

Waaaaaaagh! wrote:For example, can GW send you a C&D if you use, say, the Warhammer 40,000 logo on your website? What if you have the disclaimers provided by GW on your site? Would having Google Ads affect this?

The answers to all of those questions depends on the country and jurisdiction in which you and your website reside.

If you'd like a legitimate answer, hire a lawyer. If you're content to get answers from people who might be twelve year old kids, well, then you've asked in the right place.

I wouldn't risk it, is the operative word. GW doesn't deserve fansites, anyway.

True

Yup. Best advice going is to ditch the fansite and to ditch GW as well. Take up a game produced by a company that actually gives a stuff. It'll work out better for everyone in the long run...

Osbad wrote:Yup. Best advice going is to ditch the fansite and to ditch GW as well. Take up a Warmachine by Privateer Press that actually gives free beta stuff. It'll work out better for everyone in the long run...

Fixed your typo.

GW is a Brittish Company, so don't the laws apply only in Britain?

GW doesn't deserve fansites, anyway.

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Um, guys, er, um, in case it wasn't obvious, this is a GW fan site, the one you posted those comments on. Oh, the irony.

Almost as amusing as the posts I see on here that say, "I haven't bought or played with anything from GW in years, but blah blah..." and then they go on to to complain about this or that. If you dropped GW products for another hobby years ago what are you doing hanging around on a forum nearly solely dedicated to GW products? When I drop a hobby, I drop it, I don't hang about on forums for things for which I have no interest and which I don't buy. It's totally irrational to be hanging around Warhammer forums years after you got out of the hobby.

Solorg wrote:GW is a Brittish Company, so don't the laws apply only in Britain?

GW is Her Majesty's premier miniatures retailer! They are above the law!

BrassScorpion wrote:Um, guys, er, um, this is a fan site, the one you posted those comments on.

We fought the law, and the, law won.

GW US is a US company and is protected in the US by US laws.

The Phazer wrote:

Osbad wrote:

lord_blackfang wrote:There's a whole section of the GW website dedicated to explaining what *they think* you can and can't do with their IP.

Corrected the typo...

There's nothing in there particularily inaccurate under British or American trademark and copyright law.

Phazer

So you're say, By Law, we can't make conversions of GW figs using bitz from other companies?

Depends on the country, and the country your hosted in.

Once again a Cease and Desist letter carries no legal authority unless it comes from a court who's jurisdiction you recognize.

We never said anything about laws making sense Aduro