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Scrolls Gets To Keep Its Name

by Matt Waitt [ Thursday, 20th of October 2011 - 07:25 AM ]

Markus Persson (aka Notch), the man who brought you Minecraft has won a legal battle against ZeniMax Media/Bethesda Softworks. His new project, entitled Scrolls, seems to have caught the attention of one of the big dogs. The trouble began when a law firm representing ZeniMax contacted Markus saying that he was being sued for having a game title with the likeness to The Elder Scrolls. To be honest, I find that to be just to a bit ridiculous. There is a clear and distinct difference between "Scrolls" and "The Elder Scrolls." If every company acted like this then the creators of Twisted Metal would have to sue the creators of Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet simply because it has the word "twisted" in it.

Anyways, after Markus found out he was being sued, he tried to simmer ZeniMax Media down by challenging them to a friendly tournament of Quake III to decide the outcome of the naming dispute. After no answer from ZeniMax or Bethesda, Markus found himself going to court. In a post on his Twitter account he proclaimed "We won the interim injunction! We can keep using the name 'Scrolls' ZeniMax/Bethesda can still appeal the ruling, but I'm very happy :D"

Congratulations Markus for winning against the giants.

3 comments

VulgarDaClown [ Thursday, 20th of October 2011 - 09:42 AM ]

No prob, just wanted to put that out there. :) Great write up though.

Ruen [ Thursday, 20th of October 2011 - 09:35 AM ]

Thanks for clearing things up vulgar

VulgarDaClown [ Thursday, 20th of October 2011 - 09:08 AM ]

Ok, there are a few things wrong with this. 1. He wont the interim junction, not the lawsuit 2. He tried to trademark "Scrolls" which in turn would have made Zenimax/Bethesda in the wrong and pushed back the release of Skyrim plus future TES games and re-releases. 3. Bethesda sued to protect their IP which if they did not would have weakened future cases for someone actually trying to be malicious with their IPs 4. They never sued for any money, just to prevent the name usage. 5. The junction only allows him the name to be used, not the trademark he was seeking and also suing about. Don't let the media and the vilification of Big companies sway you from whats going on here. Neither were really the bad guys, just 2 biz's trying to get by.

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