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Old 12-26-2010 , 01:46   Re: [L4D1/2] Project Realism (scripters letz merge)
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I want to go on record that Project Realism is a copyrighted/© name under my group Achievement Reaper and my clan Reapers Gale. I actually paid for the name.

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Old 12-26-2010 , 06:21   Re: [L4D1/2] Project Realism (scripters letz merge)
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I want to go on record that Project Realism is a copyrighted/© name under my group Achievement Reaper and my clan Reapers Gale. I actually paid for the name.
Ignoring the interesting interpretation of the word "copyright", we'll go with what I can remember off the top of my head ...

Company of Heroes has a modification called "Project Realism", so does ARMA II. While I'm not sure when ARMA II came out, I do know that COH's "Project Realism" predates the original Left4Dead. I believe there are also "Project Realisms" for SPORE, BF2, the original BF, Age of Empires III, Halo, and an article from the 1970s using the same title (or subtitle, if you prefer to parse it that way). (Okay, I googled it, but I remembered the Nixon article, because I enjoy history.)

Now, I am not a lawyer, but if you are talking about making a trade mark (usually written "trademark"), it cannot be registered if it does not distinguish your work from others (at least so it applies in Australia, and others countries with similar common law -- namely the US, and the UK). In this case, "Project Realism", because there are previous works using the name (i.e. the COH work, at least, and no doubt a dozen others), it would not distinguish it, because it is the same name -- it would not distinguish it from the previous works, but rather suggest that you are building on them, working with them, or ran the previous projects.

Unless you registered it in your country as a trade mark, and it has been accepted (in which case the information will be made available to the public), I cannot see how or where you paid for it. If it has been accepted, could you please show us the public information so we can refrain from using it?

tl;dr: "pics or lies"/"proveit" and "unlikely"

Last edited by Swixel; 12-26-2010 at 06:25. Reason: I stand corrected, it was AOE 3
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Old 12-26-2010 , 06:35   Re: [L4D1/2] Project Realism (scripters letz merge)
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Ignoring the interesting interpretation of the word "copyright", we'll go with what I can remember off the top of my head ...

Company of Heroes has a modification called "Project Realism", so does ARMA II. While I'm not sure when ARMA II came out, I do know that COH's "Project Realism" predates the original Left4Dead. I believe there are also "Project Realisms" for SPORE, BF2, the original BF, Age of Empires III, Halo, and an article from the 1970s using the same title (or subtitle, if you prefer to parse it that way). (Okay, I googled it, but I remembered the Nixon article, because I enjoy history.)

Now, I am not a lawyer, but if you are talking about making a trade mark (usually written "trademark"), it cannot be registered if it does not distinguish your work from others (at least so it applies in Australia, and others countries with similar common law -- namely the US, and the UK). In this case, "Project Realism", because there are previous works using the name (i.e. the COH work, at least, and no doubt a dozen others), it would not distinguish it, because it is the same name -- it would not distinguish it from the previous works, but rather suggest that you are building on them, working with them, or ran the previous projects.

Unless you registered it in your country as a trade mark, and it has been accepted (in which case the information will be made available to the public), I cannot see how or where you paid for it. If it has been accepted, could you please show us the public information so we can refrain from using it?

tl;dr: "pics or lies"/"proveit" and "unlikely"
Wow!! this post has been converted to a interesting case of laws

I know the right man to handle this:

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