{"id":14078,"date":"2011-09-16T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"update-bethesda-super-seriously-pursuing-litigation-against-minecraft-dev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14078-update-bethesda-super-seriously-pursuing-litigation-against-minecraft-dev","title":{"rendered":"Update: Bethesda \u201csuper seriously\u201d pursuing litigation against Minecraft dev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, the people over at Bethesda are a pretty serious bunch of fun-haters. According to a post over on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/notch\/status\/114619295375429632\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Minecraft dev Markus &ldquo;Notch&rdquo; Persson&rsquo;s Twitter stream\">Minecraft dev Markus &ldquo;Notch&rdquo; Persson&rsquo;s Twitter stream<\/a>, the company is still pursuing its litigation over his side project, Scrolls.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oooh, got another &lsquo;super seriously, taking you to court now&rsquo; email from bethesda\/zenimax! Looking forward to this,&rdquo; writes Notch.<\/p>\n<p>The publisher originally filed the suit <a href=\" http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/13364-Bethesda-sets-lawyers-Minecraft-developer.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"last month\">last month<\/a>, claiming that using the word &ldquo;scrolls&rdquo; infringes on their own Elder Scrolls trademark, because apparently people are too stupid to work out for themselves the difference between an indie game project and Bethesda&rsquo;s RPG series.<\/p>\n<p>I know I was totally confused and scared by it all.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe they don&rsquo;t have any <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/16684-Notch-challenges-Bethesda-to-Quake-3-match-to-settle-lawsuit?s=df6fefe89c74879429c844dac9d69214\" target=\"_self\" title=\"decent Quake 3 players\">decent Quake 3 players<\/a> in the office.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe they&rsquo;re having coffee with <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/7934-Edge-Reason-The-Tim-Langdell-Story.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Tim Langdell\">Tim Langdell<\/a>, and laughing about how awesome petty squabbling over everyday English words is.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not like lawyers have anything better to do.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17788-Bethesda-&ldquo;super-seriously&rdquo;-intent-on-pursuing-litigation-against-Minecraft-dev\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Update: Bethesda &ldquo;super seriously&rdquo; pursuing litigation against Minecraft dev\">Update: Bethesda &ldquo;super seriously&rdquo; pursuing litigation against Minecraft dev<\/a> <\/strong>&lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global mega-publisher intent on suing independent developer over English word<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}