Marvel vs. City of Heroes

[billroper]

Via Mark Evanier, here's an interesting article discussing Marvel Comics' lawsuit vs. the City of Heroes folks.

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[(Anonymous)]

"Protect The License At All Cost". I get the idea that this is at the root of a lot of this nonsense. Companies have lost trademarks when the trdemarked name for an item became the default noun--"Zipper" was once the name of only one brand of hook-and-slider fastener--so the corporate paranoia over this sort of thing is understandable, if still infuriating.

It strikes me that the best way to handle this would be to change the trademark and copyright laws to allow "fair use" without danger to the trademark holder.

Of course, that would probably put some lawyers out of work.

Sam Winolj