Marius Delphus
Adventurer
As I read it, nobody "went after" anybody. As they've asked other organizations in the past, to protect their trademark, Lone Wolf asked Privateer, in what turned out this time to be poorly-worded letter, to please police infringing uses of "Army Builder" as a trademark and to please educate, or allow Lone Wolf to educate, forum posters about the trademark's existence. The strident tone and confusion between the words "improper" and "infringing" have since been apologized for.
Intellectual property *is* property, in the following respect: the owner of a trademark, copyright, or patent has, in the words of Wikipedia, "the right to consume, sell, rent, mortgage, transfer, exchange, or destroy [the] property, and/or to exclude others from doing these things" (in this case, that'd be "and").
Intellectual property *is* property, in the following respect: the owner of a trademark, copyright, or patent has, in the words of Wikipedia, "the right to consume, sell, rent, mortgage, transfer, exchange, or destroy [the] property, and/or to exclude others from doing these things" (in this case, that'd be "and").