I'd say that the trademark and copyright fields have gotten overlawyered as well as a questionable increase in the extent and length of the validity of both (Thank Disney and Big Media corps for that idiocy). Nor do the differences between U.S., British, and European trademark law help matters in the least. GW went after the book basing themselves on European TM law not British or U.S. which are more limited in extent.
Thanks to the EFFthe book is back up on amazon. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/t ... ack-online
It does look like though that GW legal dept. did a serious overreach and ended up doing more damage to the companies image by being a pack of boneheaded trigger happy idiots.
Nor did their statement on Facebook in any way help matters see :
http://www.facebook.com/notes/games-wo ... 2240435610
(Take a look at the 910 plus comments and counting which for the most part have been calling GWs behavior out.
--Werehawk--
My mom's brief take on upcoming Guatemalan Elections "In last throes of preelection activities. Much loudspeaker vote pleading."
Thanks to the EFFthe book is back up on amazon. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/t ... ack-online
It does look like though that GW legal dept. did a serious overreach and ended up doing more damage to the companies image by being a pack of boneheaded trigger happy idiots.
Nor did their statement on Facebook in any way help matters see :
http://www.facebook.com/notes/games-wo ... 2240435610
(Take a look at the 910 plus comments and counting which for the most part have been calling GWs behavior out.
--Werehawk--
My mom's brief take on upcoming Guatemalan Elections "In last throes of preelection activities. Much loudspeaker vote pleading."