GW at it again?

[Admiral-Badruck]

but that said it rewards the guy down the street making Space Guards that look just like Death Corps of K.. what he is doing is even more dishonest but the law does nothing to protect from that... seems fair

[Primarch]

but that said it rewards the guy down the street making Space Guards that look just like Death Corps of K.. what he is doing is even more dishonest but the law does nothing to protect from that... seems fair

Actually, if the models are too similar, GW may have a case against them as well.
With the models it would be more difficult to prove unless they were exact duplicates, but essentially taking someone else's copyright materials and profiting from it is against the law.

[Admiral-Badruck]

http://wargamesfactory.com/wargames-fac ... ps-7x-deal

so these are fine... not doing anything wrong?

I totally cannot see why this would be ok and what Chapter House is doing to be wrong...

[Primarch]

http://wargamesfactory.com/wargames-fac ... ps-7x-deal

so these are fine... not doing anything wrong?

I totally cannot see why this would be ok and what Chapter House is doing to be wrong...

You really dont get it?
They are:
A) Not using GW terms
B) Not using similar designs to GW models.
If they called them Death Korps or they had IG style lasguns and Aquilas on there armour it would be a different matter. Soldiers in gas masks aren't a copyright held by anyone. Whilst there are similarities between those models and the Death Korps of Krieg those similarities aren't something that GW or any other company can lay claim to.

Copyright is about protecting your own UNIQUE ideas. You CAN make similar products.

CH do make some unique items or models that GW doesnt. That is fine. CH could copyright their designs for their models if they wanted to, but they cant use another company's copyright terms to name them.

[Admiral-Badruck]

IMHO they are both wrong... or neither is from a moral stand point...

[Primarch]

IMHO they are both wrong... or neither is from a moral stand point...

Legally GW has the right to take CH to court to claim for copyright infringement and they are doing so. The courts will decide who is in the right. I know that it seems that this is a case of a big corporation picking on a little guy, but in all fairness, the little guy has the same rights if a big company starts using their copyrights without permission. The law isnt based on moral stand points. It is a common set of rules that everyone has to follow regardless of their feeling on the subject.
At the end of the day, even if CH win the court case, the costs of the legal proceedings will probably cripple their business anyway.

[Admiral-Badruck]

Well I am sure not going to stand for it... GW has made a lot of money off of me and it has been ages since I have bought anything directly from them... I may have to take a Spevna stance I liked CH and they made it easy for us to get things that were very useful I never bought from them but I did have a hard look at a lot of stuff... hope they find a way to stick around..

[Spevna]

I may have to take a Spevna stance

It is the stance of all stances, the stance of men. If Chuck Norris and Mr T sat down together and came up with a stance, it would be "a Spevna stance".