First Space Marine, now Kaiju

trancejeremy · Mar 21, 2013

Kaiju being Japanese for (giant) monster like Godzilla, Gamera, Baragon, and so forth.

A developer (who had made Godzilla games) was making a game (well, KS Project) called Kaiju Combat. But WOTC has sent them a cease & desist letter, claiming they own the name Kaiju because of their card game, Kaijudo, which they might want to turn into a video game

http://kaijucombat.com/community/in...-infringement-case-against-kaiju-combat.3661/

Stormonu · Mar 21, 2013

where's the facepalm smiley when you need it?

Umbran · Mar 21, 2013

Hr. He doesn't present the exact legalese (at least in that first post), and I'm not sure I trust his reported interpretation - it may be correct, or it may be incomplete....

I could easily imagine that if WotC has a giant monster combat game, this guy's giant monster combat game could be in violation of copyright, other than just that word.

Deset Gled · Mar 21, 2013

Umbran said:
He doesn't present the exact legalese...

...this guy's giant monster combat game could be in violation of copyright..

Yeah, he actually says that WotC claimed a violation over the "copyright" of the term "Kaijudo", which makes little sense. If WotC was claiming violation based on that name, the complaint should be based on trademark, not copyright. If they're actually claiming copyright violation, they're probably going after the game itself, not the name.

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