| From: | Fanguad fanguad@****.rit.edu |
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| Subject: | FASA Trademarks |
| Date: | Sat, 10 Jun 2000 23:40:14 -0400 |
> Matrix" (even how lame the ending was) sent more people their way asking
> about shadowrun. Every stop to think why FASA came out the Shadowrun thrid
> edition so closely after the movie was reliesed on video? And anyway I
3rd Edition was released at GenCON '98, well before "The Matrix"
even came out.
> don't really think FASA cares that much about copywrite infringment, they're
> only number one, going to suffer a greater increase in sales of shadowrun,
> but oh now that leaves number two, people will get more curious about FASA
> and get more interested if shadowrun isn't for them in Earthdawn or
> Battletech. So anyway, it'd blow my mind to see FASA raise a case against
> the makers of "The Matirx" that's what'd hurt em'.
Personally, I doubt "The Matrix" impacted the sales of
Shadowrun one bit. An idiot search for "The Matrix" (minus
quotes) turns up no hits for Shadowrun in the first 30 hits (the
furthest I was willing to look).
I'm not sure exactly what FASA's trademarks cover, but I doubt
that Warner Bros will go as far as blatantly breaking copyright
laws. I wouldn't put it past them to get into grey areas (i.e. toys)
and rely on their sheer size to keep FASA in it's place.
Conversely, FASA couldn't hope to pull off a lawsuit against
WB unless they were stupid and quite blatant in their copyright
infringement, (Even then, FASA might lose to WB's sheer mass)
so we won't be seeing any of that either
> -Shadowboy88
BTW, Shadowboy - This is not an in-character mailing list.
-- Fanguad
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