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Dice Age — Indie Gaming Project vs. Hollywood

Posted by Soulskill on from the we-own-all-the-words dept.

ArrowBay writes "Dice Age, a independent game project that raised nearly $35K through Kickstarter, is apparently facing some scrutiny from a certain movie studio that has produced movies with a similar name. From the latest project update: 'As if the Ice Age was exclusively the name of a movie, or if Dice Age was a movie itself, the 20th century fox has just asked for an extent of time (till 10-26-2011) to oppose to the registering of our beloved Dice Age game name. My point of view, as a scientist, is the Ice age is a geological era before it is a movie.""

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  1. Are you surprised? Its Hollywood. by WiiVault · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hollywood has made it their goal to privatize everything from "Seal Team 6"- registered by Disney, to our fairy tales like Snow White. Stealing from the public domain and threatening everybody not in the club is nothing new for them. I have little doubt that the bean counters at Fox known damn well that most courts in the land will back their insane claim, assuming the small developer can even afford to fight the battle.

    1. Re:Are you surprised? Its Hollywood. by Hsien-Ko · · Score: 5, Informative

      "Seal Team 6"- registered by Disney

      This was revoked.

    2. Re:Are you surprised? Its Hollywood. by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Informative

      According to this it wasn't revoked by some authority for being ridiculous, it was pulled by Disney themselves after widespread public backlash. That won't happen in most cases. Also in the most problematic cases of large hollywood studios stealing the public domain, they won't be going up against the world's best military.