Marvel Sues 2 Cos. Over Role-Playing Game
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Marvel Enterprises Inc. is suing two firms behind a computer superhero role-playing game it claims allows players to make virtual characters that are too similar to "The Hulk," "X-Men" and other heroes in the comic book company's stable.
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The estate of "Lord of the Rings" creator J.R.R. Tolkien is suing the film studio that released the trilogy based on his books, claiming the company failed to pay a cut of gross profits for the blockbuster films.
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Half-Life 2 maker Valve has won a legal battle over who controls access to its games in cyber cafes.
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Marvel Enterprises, IP guardian of The Hulk and untold other fictional freaks, is suing the creators of the hot online game "City of Heroes," claiming that characters in the game are virtually identical to Marvel characters. [Missing Links]
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WALT Disney and London&#39;s Great Ormond Street Hospital are embroiled in a row over who owns the rights to Peter Pan. The US media giant has published a prequel to the fairytale that the children&#39;s hospital says infringes its existing copyright.
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The Motion Picture Association of  America said on Wednesday it has sued a company that sells  Internet downloads of current movies like "I, Robot" and  "Spider-Man 2" without permission.
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Facebook members are mounting a fight to save the Scrabulous game on Facebook.
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The future of customisable gaming content is hanging in balance right now, following Marvel launching a lawsuit against South Korea-based NCSoft: alleging copyright infringement in the Online action game City of Heroes.
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Comic-book publisher Marvel Enterprises Inc. on Wednesday said it plans to appeal a court decision giving a share of its film and television profits to former editor Stan Lee, who created Spider-Man and a host of other popular Marvel characters.
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According to the lawsuit, screenwriter Roger Avary met with the Microsoft team and pitched them a detailed concept for a video game designed to lead players through yoga poses using Microsoft&#39;s Xbox.
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A small book publisher faces off against the titans in a Harry Potter copyright case.
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A Scottish firm has been criticised by the family of John F Kennedy for producing a game which recreates the president&#39;s assassination in Dallas.
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A Beijing-based software company has filed a lawsuit against the creator of the "World of Warcraft" and the game's local operator for allegedly using its Chinese character fonts illegally.
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The online game infringes the copyright of the longstanding board game, game-maker says.
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Tycho:  After Gods & Heroes was scrapped, developer Perpetual Entertainment was sued by their PR company.  People are being sued all the time, and we should know, but in this case they were being sued for really interesting things: namely, a kind of "bounty" on initial sales based on their tireless promotion of the title.  Is that common in these arrangements?  I don't think most people consider that role especially powerful, but companies don't write in clauses like that for no reason.  The articles you see on news sites are written by people you know, but the content, timing, and (if they can swing it) tone of those articles is typically part of a fairly scientific structure cooked up by PR.  They contextualize the demos in their entirety, negotiate access, and stud their speech with tactical phrases they hope will find their way into the final piece.
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Blog: Decision means the psychological horror title can not be legally be supplied anywhere in the U.K. Rockstar, a division of Take-Two Interactive, has six weeks to appeal.
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Up to a point, Lord Copper A US company has filed a lawsuits against both Nintendo and Sony, alleging that the controllers that go with the companiesâ games consoles trample over its intellectual property rights for console to controller connection.â¦