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08-02-2013, 01:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-02-2013, 01:32 PM by Simian.)
But it does have a trade mark on the term right? it mentions it in the article that its had it since 1995, so what they're doing is actually just enforcing it.
they're within their rights to do that surely? (I know very very little about copyright.)
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I am going to put a trade mark on the term flying car and make a fortune.....
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I think what the lady thats trying to get her book back on amazon is saying that the term "space marine" means so much to the syfy fans and authors that it should be to popular to copyright and that she should be able to sell her books? (please correct me if I'm wrong..)
but it's already copyrighted, so I don't think she has a case...
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Yeah, the people who control copyright shouldn't have allowed it to be copyrighted, but it was so sounds like it's tough and she needs to change it to space farer or something
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The point they are making is that the term "space marine" is a description of what something is, should never have been allowed to be copyrighted in any other media other than tabletop Wargaming. GW are not the first to use it in sci-Fi an wont be the last.
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