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[quote who="Prof_Hari_Seldon" reply="136" id="3740388"] The Precursors trademark that is still in process? [/quote] You can register a trademark for almost anything. Defending it in court is somewhat more difficult. Cadbury trademarked the colour purple but let it lapse after a couple of court losses made it obvious that they had zero chance of defending it. Precursor is a common English word and its application to earlier races obvious.: <div class="dc_

[quote who="GMOrz" reply="112" id="3740140"] What has been said is that you can copyright "a particular expression of hyperspace which is a red space filled with swirling lights and holes that allow you to see in to nearby star systems. [/quote] Cadbury tried to trademark "purple". <p style="border: 0px; color: #404040; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; fon

[quote who="Jafo" reply="119" id="3740162"] A piece of paper entered into court as 'evidence' be it a contract or a shopping list makes it neither true, absolute, or in fact even real. [/quote] A written contract entered into court as evidence is very real. It demonstrates what was agreed to. A verbal agreement and handshake is just as legally binding, but unless there is supporting evidence it is very difficult to prove.

[quote who="Kavik_Kang" reply="121" id="3740233"] It's obvious from the "Prime" and "Origins" titles who is who, and everyone knows that it all comes through Stardock who owns the "Star Control" name. [/quote] Stardock bought and paid for the name. The original authors have no right to it. If I sell you my house that I built, I have no right to come live in the spare bedroom because I used to own it.

[quote who="GMOrz" reply="112" id="3740140"] You would, surely, be upset if I started selling copies of Galactic Civilizations [/quote] In fact, if I had bought and paid for the trademark "Galactic Civilizations" I would be very upset if Stardock started selling Galactic Civilizations IV. Stardock OWN the trademark, the original authors have no right to it. They also have a licence for derivative works from SC3. They can use anything in it and can add anythin

[quote who="tingkagol" reply="100" id="3739904"] P&F must have been so stupid to sign a contract that would effectively bind their IP with the publisher forever [/quote] If they were granting an exclusive license yes, if they were just granting a license to publish with the option of granting other licenses to other pu

If there are no sales of the game, the royalties due are zero. This does not constitute a cessation of payment of royalties, this would only be the case if there were sales made for which they were not paid. They were in fact paid the zero dollars due on zero sales.

DMCA is a notification that the author believes his copyright is being infringed. It serves the purpose of notifying the party involved and a base point for claiming damages should the infringement continue. In most cases where there is a clear infringement the party notified will immediately stop distributing. Where they do not however, actual copyright infringement must be proven. When SCO Unix tried this approach against Linux, some paid up, some stopped distributing but most conti

" A judge already ruled against your injunction, and authorized this DMCA. An expert in law, who has had time to review the evidence, felt that this DMCA claim was warranted: "Insofar as Plaintiff questions the wisdom of the DMCA process, however, its quarrel is with Congress"." This refers solely to the injunction and Brad being unq

Latin words are magic has been pretty standard at least as far as The Exorcist.

Lotus sued competitors over "look and feel" infringement because of the similarities between Lotus 123 and their products. They won a handful of cosmetic changes but nothing significant. I don't think Lotus 123 is even a product today.

I had never heard of Star Control prior to Star Control Origins. I was in fact made aware of it when trawling the net for an updated StarFlight. It was the game's obvious resemblance to StarFlight (stuff like mining resources on alien worlds, having to buy upgrades, a Space Command you reported to etc) that encouraged me to give the game a go.

So, you change the color of hyperspace to green. Streaks are just about universal to denote movement in hyperspace in any number of games and tv shows, as is the term hyperspace. Given Stardock does have a right to derivative works from Star Control 3, I can't see a win coming from the color choice.