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TheDarkElementaL
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Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Blizzard, Valve Begin Legal War Over DOTA
I don't think blizzard has a chance on this. Keep in mind there were final fantasy mods, star wars mods, dungeons and dragons mods, etc made for Warcraft 3. Blizzard can't claim copyright because those were made using those tools. They may own the maps themselves but that doesn't give them right to an IP just because it started inside of an editor. blizzard just thought of the idea a little late I think.
Ugh_Lancelot  3 stars
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Registered: 2002-6-17 14:37:05
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:01am Subject: Blizzard, Valve Begin Legal War Over DOTA
Demorak posted:
Ugh_Lancelot posted:
Sprawl-zero1eye- posted:
Who cares if they capitalize on it? Just don't try to claim it as your own.

How do you think the community would react if Ubuntu tried to claim Linux and sue all of the other distros?


Analogy fail. What it would be like is if Ubuntu tried to claim Ubuntu as a trademark. OH WAIT.

http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy



Umm no, yours would be like if Blizzard Entertainment tried to trademark Blizzard Entertainment. OH WAIT.

Sprawl's analogy was correct. His is referencing someone trademarking something created through a platform, whereas yours is trademarking the platform itself.

DOTA is not the platform.


Read that again.

Canonical(3rd-party company), Linux(platform), Ubuntu(modification built on platform).
Valve(3rd-party company), WC3(platform), DOTA(modification build on platform).

Canonical did not invent Linux but they did trademark Ubuntu without copyrighting Linux.

 

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