| Schogun | 17 Dec 2012 12:15 p.m. PST |
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Meiczyslaw  | 17 Dec 2012 12:21 p.m. PST |
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| richarDISNEY | 17 Dec 2012 12:23 p.m. PST |
Pollyanna meets Starship Troopers in this web serial about a 30-something Marine called out of retirement to join the war against the crabs. But shattered morale is the least of her company's problems, and their survival may hinge on an unlikely friendship forged between an alien weapons designer and a mother-turned-warrior…. doesn't sound like GW IP work there anyway. Not sure if this will hold.  |
79thPA  | 17 Dec 2012 1:15 p.m. PST |
Space marine! Space marine! Space marine! Take that, GW! |
| Artraccoon | 17 Dec 2012 1:29 p.m. PST |
So is the Star Wars IP holder gonna sue the Germans(or anyone else) over the name "Stormtrooper"? |
| Mako11 | 17 Dec 2012 1:42 p.m. PST |
Okay, I'm on board too. Also interesting that their trademark doesn't cover "miniatures games", or books, which seems to me to be glaring omissions. Space Marine! Space Marine!! SPACE MARINE!!! |
| Charles Marlow | 17 Dec 2012 1:56 p.m. PST |
GW are ridiculous! Oh, yeah… SPACE MARINE! |
 javelin98 | 17 Dec 2012 2:35 p.m. PST |
Sounds like James Cameron and Paul Reiser better call their lawyers, since Reiser's character used that exact term in "Aliens", IIRC. |
| freewargamesrules | 17 Dec 2012 3:00 p.m. PST |
I'm a Space Marine and so is my wife! |
| Admiral Yi Sun Sin is my Homie | 17 Dec 2012 3:06 p.m. PST |
I remember "colonial marines" being used in Aliens. I don't think any actor used "Space Marines" in Aliens. I think I would have picked up on "Space Marines" being used but I could be wrong. I haven't watched it since September though. Time to watch it again I think!  |
 miniMo | 17 Dec 2012 3:22 p.m. PST |
Oh yeah, GW renewed their copyright on 'space marine' in 1955, after the 1932 one expired….
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GildasFacit  | 17 Dec 2012 3:25 p.m. PST |
Which parts of Dick and Head don't these people understand ? |
| Zephyr1 | 17 Dec 2012 3:47 p.m. PST |
Does the author's Space Marines have skulls on them? Just wonderin'…. eek!
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| Rassilon | 17 Dec 2012 3:58 p.m. PST |
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| Tacitus | 17 Dec 2012 4:15 p.m. PST |
Next Lucasfilm is going to sue Austria-Hungary for using Imperial Stormtroopers. |
| Meiczyslaw | 17 Dec 2012 4:21 p.m. PST |
Next Lucasfilm is going to sue Austria-Hungary for using Imperial Stormtroopers. Um, doesn't GW have an "Empire" faction? Just like SW has an "Empire"? And aren't there "Stormtroopers" in the Imperial Guard faction? Does anybody have a phone number to Disney's lawyers? |
| skippy0001 | 17 Dec 2012 4:27 p.m. PST |
US Marines were checking the feasibility of the shuttle being a orbital artillery spotter and they considered the soldier to be a Space Marine. So I want to see GW go after them. |
| Rassilon | 17 Dec 2012 4:58 p.m. PST |
Isn't Space Marine at its core a descriptive term? Marine + Space = Space Marine. How can a base descriptor within a language infringe on IP? *sigh* |
| Pedrobear | 17 Dec 2012 6:48 p.m. PST |
The guy who works at my local librarian can no longer call himself a librarian… |
| PJ Parent | 17 Dec 2012 7:58 p.m. PST |
Is your local library on a Marine base?
And if it could somehow be in the town of Space that would be too much. |
| Twilight Samurai | 17 Dec 2012 8:46 p.m. PST |
There is a lot of yanking going on at GW. SPACE MARINE! |
| Zephyr1 | 17 Dec 2012 9:48 p.m. PST |
If it wasn't for GW, Princess Ryan would still have Space Marines…. |
| flicking wargamer | 18 Dec 2012 5:41 a.m. PST |
There are several book series that have Space Marines in them and use that term. I think his publisher just did not want to pay him anymore. I understand several religions are suing GW for using the term Chaplain. |
 John the OFM | 18 Dec 2012 8:24 a.m. PST |
All this shows is that the deeper pockets rule.
The more you can afford to spend on lawyers, the better your chance of prevailing. |
| Lentulus | 18 Dec 2012 6:07 p.m. PST |
Meh. If *Space Marines* is the best term you can come up with, you should have your SF writing license taken away. |
| StarfuryXL5 | 19 Dec 2012 1:00 a.m. PST |
I remember when TSR slapped a "TM" on the word Nazi in their Indiana Jones game.
Space Marine StarfuryXL5
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 Parzival | 20 Dec 2012 4:30 p.m. PST |
To be fair, TSR was trademarking the specific logo design, not the word itself. Space Marine Parzival |
| StarfuryXL5 | 21 Dec 2012 12:27 a.m. PST |
No, there was a "TM" on the word "Nazi" on the base of the cardboard figures supplied with the game. It was just a word, not a logo. I don't think they had a "Nazi" logo or letterform design. SPACE MARINE StarfuryXL5 |
| 3rd Foot and Mouth | 22 Dec 2012 4:23 p.m. PST |
I've heard it claimed the TSR didn't actually try and trademark Nazi, rather it was on the list of Lucasfilm trademarks that TSR was required to acknowledge. |
| RudyNelson | 23 Dec 2012 5:26 p.m. PST |
What about the Space marines in 'Space and Beyond"? I remember the TSR and German WW2 trademark conflicts. I think it may have been Gestapo rather than nazi. It was part of the 'Top Secret' game system supplements. Oh YeahI know of several game systems that used 'Space marine' terms in their games long before GW came out with their system. Several of these I saw in the Zocchi Distributor warehouse back in 1983. They all had copyrights in the late 1970s. So GW did not invent the term SPACE MARINE so can not be intellectual property. |
| RobWolsky | 30 Jan 2013 9:55 p.m. PST |
Mark Ratner published a set of rules in the 70's called "Space Marine". It was re-issued a few years later by Fantasy Games Unlimited with the same title. I still have copies of both, can't throw any set of rules away! |
