Trademarks are totally intellectual property. From Wikipedia:
Intellectual property (or "IP") is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect, and primarily encompasses copyrights, patents, and trademarks.
The only difference is that different kinds of assets are involved. The protection is basically the same.
They certainly didn't act that way as recently as 2013.
Last month, a UK game developer, Games Workshop, complained to Amazon.com that an ebook, Spots the Space Marine, infringed its trademarks in the term āspace marine.ā Turns out Games Workshop sells a popular game, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, and has registered marks in the term āspace marineā in connection with games. But Games Workshop lost all sense of proportion and decided that it also had trademark rights to the term in books. And thus a trademark bully was born.
It's bad enough that Marvel and DC both own the trademark to the term superhero but at least those two companies were involved in the creation of the first superheroes. Space marines have been in fiction since the 1930s (and authors like Robert Heinlein wrote about them) while the 40k universe was only created in 1987.
Can you imagine if a corporation owned a major holiday? Actually you don't need to imagine, just look at the NFL.
So, was it legally OK to have a party called a āSuper Bowl Partyā this past Sunday? If you had a party with a few friends and family you should be okay, according to Ball.
āBut you can never be too sure that the NFLās eye in the sky isnāt watching you and considering action,ā he said. āThey went after a church for showing the game a few years ago.ā
Family wouldn't understand, right?
You don't really know somebody until you start to love them a little. Because at that point you understand that the differences are superficial and that you would act like they do if you were in their shoes. Basically, you don't grok a lot of things.
@kiddcosmos tappastic.com/series/freddie-freakie
It's an older link, sir, but it checks out.