What's Going On: Lawsuits, Creeper Cars
"Scrolls" Lawsuit, Pt. 2
Notch feels he has a solution to the pending lawsuit between Mojang and Bethesda - a Quake 3 tournament! He provided the following stipulations:
"Three of our best warriors against three of your best warriors. We select one level, you select the other, we randomize the order. 20 minute matches, highest total frag count per team across both levels wins.
If we win, you drop the lawsuit.
If you win, we will change the name of Scrolls to something you’re fine with."
As of this writing, Bethesda has not responded to the challenge.
Creeper Car
Mojang employee Daniel Kaplan tweeted about a rather interesting discovery - the ability to customize a Holden Barina with a creeper-themed paint job! As of this writing, "The Creeper" holds the #1 spot for popularity in custom designs, so feel free to head over and vote it up some more!
Go Team Mojang!!
you're right about the copyright law stating that you can't claim words, but i'm pretty sure that you can trademark a word, but only for use with a product similar to theirs. for example, they couldn't stop you from selling copies of the Dead Sea Scrolls but they could stop you from selling a game called The Scrolls Game. i think that's more of the issue here. it's a dumb lawsuit, but i don't think notch should mock them with such a ridiculous offer lol.
Good lord Notch, your balls are the size of the sun my friend.
What a creative way to solve the issue.
And you guys are supporting it?
It's a stupid lawsuit...Bethesda is suing Mojang over a single word. stupid lawsuit deserves a stupid offer. I'm sure notch is merely mocking Bethesda, knowing they wouldn't accept such a ridiculous offer, but hoping they'd realize that they're suing Mojang for such an idiotic reason..if anybody is immature right now, it's Bethesda
Stupid lawsuits happen all of the time. I can name so many.
Lawsuit for burning a tongue.
Lawsuit for breaking into someones house, then falling down the stairs. (The intruder sued)
Lawsuit for someone pool hopping someones house, then drowning.