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.
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hmm i had the same response lol
I'm confused as to what you mean by "origional" (it's spelled original by the way) and how being original relates to this lawsuit.
Anyway, they've had to deal with lawsuits before. I remember when ZeniMax tried to sue Mojang for copyright infringement because they happened to call that game "Scrolls" (ZeniMax is the parent company of Bethesda Softworks and Bethesda Game Studios, which means that ZeniMax owns the copyright to the Elder Scrolls franchise and all of its trademarks, hence why they sued Mojang). ZeniMax lost of course.
This case just seems to be a hell of a lot more idiotic.
No. Copyright laws are followed based on the company being harmed.
FAIL
Completely off-topic but...
The Morrowind series?
It didn't even START with Morrowind, I have no idea where that nickname came from...
I know plenty of people whom call "elder scrolls" with or without the The part... me included...Of course I wouldn't call it the scrolls series as that would be silly... Since that is too broad of a term... The only reason I do call it by that name is due to the fact that I actually own the second game in the series daggerfall. Not that it would really run on a NTFS system...><
Anyway... *shakes head* this just seems like jumping the gun before they even shoot the bullet out. O_o
Hence shooting themselves in the foot or worse... Didn't really know putt putt was still around... hmm...more or less a copywrite... I just have to laugh at this due to lack of research....
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#1 the content does not violate US Laws or international laws.
#2 For well over 20 years they have allowed people to make courses under the US Laws and not they was to sue a guy who allows people to make custom made content? That is total .
#3 Notch is bound by Swedish Copyright laws and not US Laws.
#4 Any judge who rules under Putt Putt favor is smoking crack and Notch should appeal the decision under our Laws to the US Supreme Court since this case is probably going to be the Final Decision on this issue.
People needs to contact your Senators on this issues if their is a win in their favor. This is total .
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Just the wording on it and how they keep calling themselves famous makes me think somebody simply sent this to Notch to troll him. Of course, if it is real (and the infinite bounds of human stupidity would leave me unsurprised if it was), then Putt-Putt either has bots in charge of these letters or people who don't quite understand the internet.