Bethesda Tells Minecraft Creator: Cease and Desist

dotarray writes with news that Notch, creator of Minecraft, has received a letter from Zenimax, parent company of Bethesda, demanding that he rename his company's new game, which is called Scrolls. They claim it bears too strong a resemblance to The Elder Scrolls. Notch said: "First of all, I love Bethesda. I assume this nonsense is partly just their lawyers being lawyers, and a result of trademark law being the way it is. ... I agree that the word 'Scrolls' is part of that trademark, but as a gamer, I have never ever considered that series of (very good) role playing games to be about scrolls in any way, nor was that ever the focal point of neither their marketing nor the public image. The implication that you could own the right to all individual words within a trademark is also a bit scary. We looked things up and realized they didn’t have much of a case, but we still took it seriously. Nothing about Scrolls is meant to in any way derive from or allude to their games."

Re:Can't you not

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple can suck my iPenis.

Re:Can't you not

[nschubach]

Anywhere between 5 and 10... I usually get 5 that are marked with the number 20 on a regular basis. I trade these scrolls with other people for goods and services and they usually hand me back scrolls with the numbers 1, 5, 10 or different combinations thereof in change. ;)

Re:hmmm

[Samantha Wright]

"Apple", "Computer", and "Inc."?

If we were to ask a magic eight-ball about this, it would probably suggest something along the lines of "My sources say no."

makes sense..

[Anonymous Coward]

Elder Scrolls is just later in the series:

Scrolls The Early Years.

Scrolls.

Elder Scrolls.