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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Jan 13, 2019 20:53:24 GMT -5
Apparently I'm the only one amused at the company being named Chooseco LLC
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Rave
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Post by Rave on Jan 14, 2019 12:16:06 GMT -5
Heck, not long after CYOA first started being published, TSR started publishing their own and called it Endless Quest. The EQ books were republished in 2008, no lawsuit in sight there. Give yourself Goosebumps and Endless Quest don't market themselves as Choose Your own adventure books they are "Gamebooks" ... because as stated Choose Your Own Adventure is a registered Trademark. It's why the Scholastic Nintendo books were called "You Decide on the Adventure" books. CYOA is kinda in the area of like Xerox and band-aid so this might fall apart. It doesn't matter that they didn't directly market themselves as CYOA books. The point is that this lawsuit is based on suing over a similar concept, claiming infringement. Granted, GYG was long since finished printing by the time Chooseco came into being in 2004, but as they were vigilant about their copyright enough to sue DaimlerChrysler in 2007 over a friggin' ad campaign, one would think they'd have noticed the EQ books being republished and would've tried to have been uppity about that too. Since they failed to do that, this (and the other one) are just blatant moneygrabs, just like other people are saying.
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