It's based off a book that they don't own the rights to and thus this case holds no water since they didn't go after the author of the book when writing it. Fuck off Take-Two. Gotta prove that you've done everything to secure your "intellectual property" in the past if applicable or it won't hold up in court. Same reason Starbucks had to tell that guy with the frappicino bar drink to stop calling it that because they have to enforce that shit or it can be used against them to dismiss a claim against an actually worthy target.
[QUOTE=draugur;47778221]It's based off a book that they don't own the rights to and thus this case holds no water since they didn't go after the author of the book when writing it. Fuck off Take-Two. Gotta prove that you've done everything to secure your "intellectual property" in the past if applicable or it won't hold up in court. Same reason Starbucks had to tell that guy with the frappuchino bar drink to stop calling it that because they have to enforce that shit or it can be used against them to dismiss a claim against an actually worthy target.[/QUOTE]
From how I understand it, the movie is a drama instead of a documentary, so fiction, while the book is simply a "making-of", telling events/educating, nonfiction.
Aren't trademarks limited to the specific "trade"?
[QUOTE=Fake-XM;47778277]From how I understand it, the movie is a drama instead of a documentary, so fiction, while the book is simply a "making-of", telling events/educating, nonfiction.
Aren't trademarks limited to the specific "trade"?[/QUOTE]
Nope. See the frappicino alcoholic drink that guy sold out of his bar that wasn't even marketed outside of the small town it existed it. Starbucks has nothing in the alcoholic beverage trade so looks like it doesn't matter the trade. If it's fiction it's even less in the real of their property since it's literally a dramatic representation of a book, which is one person's account of a set of events, which no one owns the right to that except the book author and maybe publisher so..
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/31/living/starbucks-frappicino-beer/[/url]
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