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<blockquote data-quote="Glade Riven" data-source="post: 5085607" data-attributes="member: 86468">All corporation exists primarally to make money; the love of money is the root of all evil; Therefore, all corporations are inherently evil. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />&nbsp;Someone coming out with a software product labled something like &quot;New Legion: an army builder&quot; Lone Wolf would have a case against, but I have a feeling that the case would come down to how good each lawyer was at arguing the point. I know copywrite and patent law has a set percentage of difference in order to not violate the rights of the origenal holder.&nbsp;Now, I know Derrivitive Works deals with fan works. Army Building as a derrivitive of the Army Builder trademark might be stretching it, depending on use. Successfully sueing over a small tagline on the box of product packaging that is using it as a descriptor - well, in that case I would hope for a really, really good lawyer to argue that point.&nbsp;There is always a choice on how aggressive one pursues such an endevor. For instance, I have done several D&amp;D based peices of artwork which is technically a derrivitive work. Hasbro can send me a C&amp;D to stop posting the artwork. They arn't going to because a. it is not worth the time and expense and b. fan works are generally considered free advertising.&nbsp;Right now, what disturbs me about Lone Wolf is that they persue a heavy-handed tactic in regards to their own trademarks, but the data sets avalable for download on their site are a violation of the trademarks of major miniature game manufacturers (Privateer Press being one of them).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Glade Riven, post: 5085607, member: 86468"] All corporation exists primarally to make money; the love of money is the root of all evil; Therefore, all corporations are inherently evil. :P Someone coming out with a software product labled something like "New Legion: an army builder" Lone Wolf would have a case against, but I have a feeling that the case would come down to how good each lawyer was at arguing the point. I know copywrite and patent law has a set percentage of difference in order to not violate the rights of the origenal holder. Now, I know Derrivitive Works deals with fan works. Army Building as a derrivitive of the Army Builder trademark might be stretching it, depending on use. Successfully sueing over a small tagline on the box of product packaging that is using it as a descriptor - well, in that case I would hope for a really, really good lawyer to argue that point. There is always a choice on how aggressive one pursues such an endevor. For instance, I have done several D&D based peices of artwork which is technically a derrivitive work. Hasbro can send me a C&D to stop posting the artwork. They arn't going to because a. it is not worth the time and expense and b. fan works are generally considered free advertising. Right now, what disturbs me about Lone Wolf is that they persue a heavy-handed tactic in regards to their own trademarks, but the data sets avalable for download on their site are a violation of the trademarks of major miniature game manufacturers (Privateer Press being one of them). [/QUOTE]

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