Bethsda files copyright claim against Mojang, Jagos's face explodes into candy

[Nikose Tyris]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011...otchs-scrolls/

Alleges Minecraft-maker Notch on Twitter: “Just got a letter from Bethesda’s lawyers. They claim “Scrolls” infringes on their trademark and everyone will confuse it with Skyrim.”

No way/what/how/why/whatwhatwhat? What? Hopefully this is just crossed wires, an overzealous lawyer acting alone, a weird joke or othewise not actually happening. We’ve asked Bethesda for a statement. Let’s wait for more information before we decide we know what’s going on: if it is as it appears, good grief. If it isn’t, phew. More as we have it, anyway.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/08/05/be...rim-trademark/

Notch has just tweeted with news that he’s received a legal notice from Bethesda: “Just got a letter from Bethesta’s lawyers. They claim “Scrolls” infringes on their trademark and everyone will confuse it with Skyrim,” he writes. We’ve reached out to Bethesda for response, but they have “no comment at this time.”

This comes on the same day that Notch also revealed that Minecraft has now passed three million sales. Notch has since tweeted to say “I still <3 Bethesda. This is hopefully just lawyers being lawyers." He also posted a picture of the document, which he says is 15 pages long.

Hopefully a case of lawyers being lawyers but I'm pretty god damn confident that the word 'scroll' is too common in the vernacular to actually have a copyright on it.