Should I be worried about my comic when it comes to gamesworkshop?

[faisalhussein394]

Hello everyone,

I hope you all are doing very well.

I am starting to have a gut-wrench feeling ever since Gamesworkshop starts making lawsuits, it didn't worry me at first for my sake until I saw a video where they go as far as going after people on eBay who are selling some board games, models, novels, or even army books of Warhammer/WH40K.

So I'm thinking what's next? Will they go for artists?

If that's the case, then this leaves me worried for my comic: Mukhtar.

You may think that I'm just being paranoid and my comic shares little to no resemblance to Warhammer fantasy/ old-world.

However, my comic is titled Mukhtar which is the name of my MC. Gamesworkshop has a character called Al-Mukhtar who is an empire character leading Arab mounted bandits as mercenaries.

And if that wasn't enough, I name the entire land inhabited by Arabs, Araby. Now the reason why I use that is that it's how we pronounce it; "Al-Araby".

Even though Gamesworkshop have Araby as a faction, they didn't update anything about it aside from mentioning Araby in other army books, novels, and games and now Gamesworkshop is getting more and more active for the worst, should I be very worried?

Maybe the name Mukhtar can have a pass for that name did exist during the Umayyad era as a rebel but for Araby? Should I reconsider it?

[kaetana]

I think you should be fine. Like you said, your comic shares little to no resemblance to Warhammer, I wouldn't think having a name in common would be enough for them to worry about (and they certainly wouldn't have any valid copyright claim when it's not remotely in their setting). Like, there's a character in Warhammer called Horus, but that doesn't mean they'd be able to go after anybody who made a comic referencing the Egyptian god Horus. I don't think you need to worry about it or change anything.