get the lawyers

(Nail) #1

see any thing familiar ?

clicky

(INF3RN0) #2

It’s April 2nd bud, oh wait… more good news /lawsuit.

(.Chris.) #3

Disney beat them all.

(Metal-Geo) #4

Hmmm… I do see something familair.

(Joe999) #5
(Berzerkr) #6

Sir, you are wrong.

Bernhard Brink beats them all. :cool:

(Nail) #7

actually, I just meant the white on blue logo, it’s even the same blue

btw, I know it’s a standard web colour

(Stroggafier) #8

Fun to see all the references.

But…didin’t your mother ever tell you, a single common word cannot be coyright protected, nor can a colour. :tongue:

(INF3RN0) #9

[QUOTE=Stroggafier;221274]Fun to see all the references.

But…didin’t your mother ever tell you, a single common word cannot be coyright protected, nor can a colour. :tongue:[/QUOTE]

Who uses ‘Brink’ other than when referring to the game lol? I plan to use it a lot more from now on :).

(Nail) #10

“Brink™
© 2010 ZeniMax Media Inc. Brink, Bethesda Softworks, ZeniMax and related logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of ZeniMax Media Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Developed in association with Splash Damage Ltd. Splash Damage and the Splash Damage logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Splash Damage Ltd. All Rights Reserved.”

seems it can

(Reanimator) #11

I would be afraid of Bethesda’s legal department, they’re scary:stroggflag:

(signofzeta) #12

I’m sure they can use the same name only if the product the name is from is totally different.

A Toy can be named Optimus prime, and so can a sporting goods item.

A video game can be named Brink, but no other video game can, but a TV show can be named Brink, because they are unrelated.

Well that is what I have heard, when I was figuring out why Hasbro can’t use certain names for their toys, because either Mattel already taken them, or something else. This is why Hasbro can use such common names that they use for their transformers toys, because it is only copyrighted in the toy category.

(H0RSE) #13

[QUOTE=signofzeta;221325]I’m sure they can use the same name only if the product the name is from is totally different.

A Toy can be named Optimus prime, and so can a sporting goods item.

A video game can be named Brink, but no other video game can, but a TV show can be named Brink, because they are unrelated.

Well that is what I have heard, when I was figuring out why Hasbro can’t use certain names for their toys, because either Mattel already taken them, or something else. This is why Hasbro can use such common names that they use for their transformers toys, because it is only copyrighted in the toy category.[/QUOTE]but what about things like songs? do they get copyrights or trademarks or whatever, because I have seen plenty of songs with the same names. They may be different songs and sound nothing alike, but they are still both songs - just like how if you had 2 totally different video games, they couldn’t both have the same name?

(Nail) #14

ZeniMax may have a sense of humour, Activision on the other hand can be hugely anal, I know from experience with our domain name.

original post was for humour, I didn’t think anyone would take it serious

sorry, forgot where I was

:wink:

(Berzerkr) #15

Thanks god they have only the copyright on the name Wolfenstein if it’s related to video games.

According to Wikipedia it’s also the name of rocks in bavaria, persons and a town in austria.

Would be fun to see how they try to force them to change names. :tongue:
But this will never happen, every good lawyer knows that he has no chance in such cases.

(signofzeta) #16

A song cannot use the same name, because it falls under the category of songs, which I don’t know if it falls under the same category of all electronics though, but I have heard of some songs with the same name as a brand of TV, but I don’t remember for sure.

Either way, they are both songs. A toy and a pharmaceutical product does not even fall under the same category. You can use the same name, as long as it falls under a completely different category. I am pretty sure that a video game and a TV show falls under totally different category.

That is why Hasbro and their toys have gotten away with trademarking a name that is a name of an actual car, or a sporting goods item, or a shampoo.

But I am not quite sure if toys and sporting goods fall under the same category.

So as long as the name is not under the same category, then it is fine. This is so that a totally different company can make a toy from a movie character, or make a video game about it, or a toy company can make a car, without having that car company yell at them.

If it just so happens that a science TV show is related to a first person shooter video game, then, whoever got the trademark or copyright for the name first is allowed to keep it.

There are many things out there with the same names, like a childeren’s toy and a hardware item with the same name, but the blue and white brink logo kind of intrigues me. Considering how TV and gaming are sort of similar, but not the same, I am not sure how far it could have went. But the TV show is now off the air, kaput, ended somewhere in 2009, and I think SD no need to contact lawyers, because they probably have lost the trademark, or copyright anyway. It happens to hasbro all the time. Their transformers toys lose the trademark, and when they want to make a 10th anniversary toy, they can’t use the original name 10 years ago, because Mattel “stole” it.

Oh, I must have read it wrong, if songs have same names, it may be because the original song lost the rights. As I said with Hasbro and Mattel, it happens with them all the time. Are these songs in the same timespan? If they are, then something is totally wrong there.

(Grimi) #17

If you see anything named “Brink” would you think of the game when seeing that? Or will you think of the other thing you saw while looking at the game? :slight_smile:

I’d say it’s good publicity!

(tokamak) #18

That’s extremely good to hear, I had no idea.

(Slade05) #19

Come on, legal department always checks first on such things.
If the name had been taken, SD would anounce Enemy Territory: Thug Wars or something.

(H0RSE) #20

A song cannot use the same name, because it falls under the category of songs, which I don’t know if it falls under the same category of all electronics though, but I have heard of some songs with the same name as a brand of TV, but I don’t remember for sure.
my point was, I have seen/heard different songs with the same names - A LOT of songs share names, so I was wondering how copyrighting works for them.