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Cryptic's Retort to Marvel
Voodoo Extreme has a short blurb with links to the players in the Marvel vs. Cryptic legal battle. The short response from Cryptic says it all: "As reported by The Associated Press, Marvel Enterprises Inc. and Marvel Characters, Inc. have sued NCsoft Corporation and Cryptic Studios. The complaint is meritless. Cryptic Studios is confident that the District Court will reject all of Marvel's claims and fully vindicate Cryptic Studios in all respects."
Cryptic has for the longest time been renaming characters that infringe on TMed comic book characters (at least Marvel named. Hence why you see Unamed Hero running around sometimes. These are characters that have been renamed). So you can say that Cryptic is doing something about not infringing on trademarks and copyrights.
It's better to burn out than to fade away
I refer you to my post in the previous discussion because, well, I'm a friggin' genius.
I believe that Cryptic has been looking at character designs as well. In their Terms of Agreement, they say that it is illegal to make characters based off of Marvel or other comic book characters, and that these characters will be deleted when found. So, no worries for Cryptic. Marvel is just trying to get them to lose players for their own MMORPG
I already know i'm going to hell, now i'm just trying to get cable down there.
Well, if you are selling the fantastic recreations of Micky Mouse, Pluto, and Donald Duck for a profit then they probably do have the right to sue you for copyright infringement.