Bethesda, Mojang & 'Scrolls'

Bethesda, Mojang & "Scrolls"

By Sacheverell Aug 5, 2011
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It would appear that Bethesda - developer of numerous popular titles, including the "Elder Scrolls" series of games - is suing Mojang for use of the word "Scrolls" in one of their upcoming projects.

UPDATE NOTE

There seems to be some (understandable) confusion in regards to where the lawsuit is coming from. To clarify, "Bethesda Softworks" (publisher and developer of game titles) and "Bethesda Game Studios" (Creators of games like Oblivion, Skyrim etc.) are not the same entity. BGS is an in-house game-making team led by Todd Howard which is one part of Bethesda Softworks, and has no direct connection to the lawsuit in progress by Bethesda Softworks. Unless further specified by the acronym "BGS", any references to Bethesda in the following article assume "Bethesda Softworks". Sorry about the confusion!

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Mojang has been in development of another project (which we went over in our last installment), which bears the working name "Scrolls". Bethesda has expressed concern that players could mix up this new game with their own "Elder Scrolls" series, although the two seem to share no noticeable similarities beyond the word "scrolls".

Notch said that their office received a 15-page cease-and-desist letter, claiming that Mojang would be sued for rights to the word, along with formal requests for legal fees. He went on to say that they are attempting to establish talks with Bethesda regarding the word, to find an amicable solution for both parties. At the time of this writing, there was no available response from Bethesda.

We will continue to update this article as information becomes available.

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jonah876
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Posted Aug 5, 2011
derp. lol

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
I never knew you could copyright an english word.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
Quote from Tycholarfero

And nobody is listening. Stop being Notch's personal defense force, and get your head out of your ass. It is not Bethesda, it is there ****ing LAWYERS.

I think it's more that most people never read past the first page.

And even if it's their lawyers doing the work, I can't help but feel like these are things that they should bring up with the company before they lay it on the table. Oh well.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
They're sueing for use of the word "Scrolls"? They don't own the word scrolls, for God's sake. As much as I love the Elder Scrolls games, this really seems to be going a bit far...

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
what fags

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
I LOVE Bethesda's work so far, but this is really stupid, its like Family Guy suing Family Feud since they're concerned that having the word "Family" will affect their ratings. This is really low of Bethesda.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
Bethesda, as much as I love Oblivion, YOU CAN SUCK MY ****.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
You are right, Lahore. The lawyers should have brought it up first, before deciding to act in some ridiculous way.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
Thats stupid, they cant own the word "scrolls" because they didn't make the word itself.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
Bethesda's (Or because daniloelnino said so, Zenimax's) lawyers are mentally challenged.
I bet it happened like this :
1 : Durr, what u want to do todey?
2 : errhmm.. lets go search the google thingy for things with words that have words the same as the companies that pay us!
1 : good idea! we gunna get so much moneys!
2 : Hurp durp -types in some random crap-
1 : NO!! that not how u spell scroolz!
2 : how do u then?
1 : S-C-R-O-O-L-Z
2 : -types that into google- *google responds as "Did you mean SCROLLS?"
1 : click the corrector thing
2 : uh i knew that
1 : hey look! a random game gunna be called scrolls!
2 : quick! tell the smart people to make a long thing about this!
-Later that day-
Notch : What's this? A 15 page long letter telling me I'm not allowed to use "Scrolls"!? -posts about it on twitter and blog-

Lol.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
yeah, they'll probably get sued for using Endermen ha ha hope Notch finds a good way out of this one

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
wtf this is ******** you can trademark the series of a game but the title of one word in your game thats ******** i think the judge would says its ******** and dismiss first to seconds of court its just so fking stupid

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
They Should rename it World Of Warcraft!

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
Scrolls. Hm.

Oh shoot, I got a 15 page letter by Bethesda saying they are suing me for saying that word in a post. We are all screwed. :sad.gif:

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
How can you get sued for using the word scrolls. Go sue RuneScape they use the word scrolls in there game

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
This will definitly improve there fanbase...

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
@ Tycholarfero
Even so, Bethesda chose to hire these lawyers, so isn't it their job to keep them on their leashes ? They will probably not let this farce continue though, hopefully. But if they do,then I personally will boycott them and their games, and encourage other minecraft fans to do the same.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
they will try to bring notch down.....NOTCH minecrfaters r with u

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
I'm not even interested in "Scrolls," or w/e it is called.

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Posted Aug 5, 2011
SCREW YOU BETHESDA

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