http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/05/elder-scrolls-vs-notchs-scrolls/ Alleges Minecraft-maker Notch on Twitter: Just got a letter from Bethesdas lawyers. They claim Scrolls infringes on their trademark and everyone will confuse it with Skyrim.
like he needs anymore publicity. he just passed 3 million units sold! kinda dissapointed on elder scrolls. But as Notch said, Lawyers will be lawyers. I still like both. Not the lawyers tho... i mean Bethesda and Minecraft.
Pretty risky move. Sure, they could easily sink Notch in court since they have much more money backing them up, but Minecraft has a very beloved place in the gaming community. It's a pretty clear-cut case of the big, faceless corporation bullying the underdog just for the sake of being evil, and the outcry over this is the…
When mojang filed a trademark for minecraft they also did it for scrolls, zenimax lawyers caught the scent of this and so it began, zenimax would've been on top of mojang even if they hadn't trademarked it, and demanded them to not call it that, most likely also in court. Mojang even told zenimax that they could drop the…