Mojang AB recently received a "cease-and-desist" letter for copyright infringement - using the trademarked name "Putt Putt"! Unfortunately, the claim assumes that Mojang is - by way of Minecraft - authorizing the use of their name and likeness, when this is simply not the case.
Often, the legal department of a company will automatically send cease-and-desist letters to anything their searches turn up that might match their criteria, without reviewing the material in detail. This can seem like a senseless action to anyone who's not been a part of a major corporation's legal team; however, they often have oceans of these kinds of claims to sort through, and it's often simpler to send out blanket requests, with the expectation that legitimate claims will be responded to. For the rest of us, it can result in hilarious misfires, like this one.
Pictured: Not Mojang
Mojang is, of course, not making any use of the amusement center franchise's trademarks.
What sort of golf mods or maps have you come across that are awesome? I'd love to hear about them in the comments!
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I can't believe you retards sent a cease-and-desist letter to Mojang.
Do you really want to get black listed buy millions of people?
If you needed publicity you got it, but it's all bad.
*facepalm*
Putt-Putt isn't being added to the game. If you READ the OP, it was because people made Minecraft videos with "Putt-Putt" in the title.
The amount of over-reaction in this thread is amusing.
This is going to be interesting.
They didn't add golf T_T mojang is getting sued for players making a map called Putt-Putt... You're almost as bad as the putt-putt people o_o
Yup.
Or in "Putt-Putt's" case infamous.
Copyright laws are just stupid.
A video game company being sued for a golf course thing?
Its basically the same as the fact that the song "Happy birthday to you" is copyrighted. Its stupid, why would someone not be allowed to say some common thing?
The term "Putt Putt" is so well known that it is synonymous for mini golf. Thus, it is illogical that anyone who says "Putt Putt" should be sued.
Ahhhhhh, I see what you did there!
Did Humongous Entertainment received a "cease-and-desist" letter for copyright infringement too ? =3
*slow clap*