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Blizzard Sued By Game Guide Creator

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-have-a-monopoly-on-info dept.

Gamespot reports on a suit brought by a game guide creator against Warcraft-maker Blizzard Entertainment. The two parties will be going to court because of an attempt by Blizzard to quash a guide the plaintiff created for the World of Warcraft MMORPG. Offered electronically through eBay, the company claims that the guide creator is infringing on their IP. From the article: "Kopp's complaint argues that his book does not infringe on any of the companies' copyrights for several reasons: The book presents a disclaimer on its first page about its 'unauthorized' nature, contains no copyrighted text or storylines from the game, and makes "fair use" of selected screenshots under copyright law, the complaint said."

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  1. Heh. Next thing you know... by Richard+Steiner · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...Blizzard is gonna start suing its own customers for displaying copies of protected game images on their PC monitors...

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  2. Re:The BS of the DMCA by Zantetsuken · · Score: 3, Funny
    Hey, with the DMCA, anything's possible! Well, what do you say Microsoft? O'Reilly's got deep pockets!
    PLEASE dont give them ideas, if that puts Oreilly out of business or keeps them from putting out books on how to use basic word processing software, it'll mean more people wont be able to read those books, meaning there'll be more people asking insanely stupid questions on how to use M$ word ("For the 80th time, *this* is how you change the font size"), making less time for us to be posting on glorious /.
  3. Re:More reasons for repudiating copyright and IP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What the poster meant was that since you are an informed individual rather that an ill-informed no-nothing know-it-all, you have no business posting on /. unless you parrot the group mime that EVERYTHING should be free as in beer.

    I said good day!