2013-07-09, 11:13 AM
(2013-07-08, 10:15 PM)HwitVlf link Wrote:But I do have more empathy for companies than Mick seems to. They spent fortunes to make their copyrighted material and they probably have to deal with thousands of dumb people every week who want to use their material for some ridiculous fan-movie of novel. As anyone who has worked in retail knows, the customer is almost always wrong, and will usually rob you blind if you let them When someone writes a second rate "Super Man" novel where the super hero goes around doing unsavory things, I don't blame DC for taking legal action to protect the Superman image they've built. Everyone feels like their fan based stuff is "quality" and "meaningful" and copyright holders really have no way of differentiating between the quality and the garbage so it's almost necessary to just C&D everyone.
Oh I have plenty of empathy. I wouldn't even reply to such letters as this. I'd cringe every time I opened one up on accident. That's why I say don't bother them with it. And its why I do all work in public domain. Because I don't want to waste a second of my life on this sort of nonsense.
This is just an extenuating case. Since Atari, or whatever remains of it, doesn't have a care. So saying a world or a subtitle can't be Warterworld is nonsense. If the game was called Waterworld that would be one thing. My only point is. Don't be proactive about this stuff. You're just wasting your time and other peoples time talking about. Including the poor schlub that has to fulfill DC's legal obligation to defend their copyrights.