Skyblock was ruled recently as a generic term. Similar Aspirin, or Thermos. Cmon, you learn this in AP Economics in the first month.
It’s unfortunate, he was never going to win a trademark due to the fact the term had been around so long and been used for so long, the term became too generic indeed. Key point is that “skyblock” is now legally a descriptive of a type of gameplay, the same as “sandbox game”.
If this had been done years earlier pre-COVID, there might have been a chance, but the best time for it to have happened would have been when Minecraft was still an indie game and noobcrew was a 15-year-old hobbyist map-maker. And Minecraft, at the time, was way more of a community thing than a big corporate sponsored game. I was there. And an attempt to do this then, would be throwing away any your status as a member of the community, and basically becoming what we are viewing microsoft as right now.
Now, it would be similar to GommeHD or Xisumavoid trying to copyright bedwars when it’s already became used across multiple platforms, not just minecraft. The amount of clone apps out there and roblox slop with Skyblock in its name should be an indicator.
It’s entirely justified to feel how unfair the scenario is, but sadly the decision is legally sound. Also i do not like how there’s been active monetization of the map itself, it’s allowed legally but in the court of public opinion why would you sell something that people have been enjoying for free, for ages..
Would prefer, if one must make money from mapmaking, for maps to be original made with your own skill and not a copied concept
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map itself can be removed only from marketplace, so that’s not a worry
also, according to EULA they cannot monetize it itself. no wonder they cannot copyright it if it’s literally forbidden to do. sad you need to loss 300k because you cannot read
and mess on marketplace is other pair of boots, that is also unrelated to lawsuit. but i get it, you need to use common catchphrases from the lack of any actual other arguments against something
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Skyblock was ruled recently as a generic term. Similar Aspirin, or Thermos. Cmon, you learn this in AP Economics in the first month.
It’s unfortunate, he was never going to win a trademark due to the fact the term had been around so long and been used for so long, the term became too generic indeed. Key point is that “skyblock” is now legally a descriptive of a type of gameplay, the same as “sandbox game”.
If this had been done years earlier pre-COVID, there might have been a chance, but the best time for it to have happened would have been when Minecraft was still an indie game and noobcrew was a 15-year-old hobbyist map-maker. And Minecraft, at the time, was way more of a community thing than a big corporate sponsored game. I was there. And an attempt to do this then, would be throwing away any your status as a member of the community, and basically becoming what we are viewing microsoft as right now.
Now, it would be similar to GommeHD or Xisumavoid trying to copyright bedwars when it’s already became used across multiple platforms, not just minecraft. The amount of clone apps out there and roblox slop with Skyblock in its name should be an indicator.
It’s entirely justified to feel how unfair the scenario is, but sadly the decision is legally sound. Also i do not like how there’s been active monetization of the map itself, it’s allowed legally but in the court of public opinion why would you sell something that people have been enjoying for free, for ages..
Would prefer, if one must make money from mapmaking, for maps to be original made with your own skill and not a copied concept
map itself can be removed only from marketplace, so that’s not a worry
also, according to EULA they cannot monetize it itself. no wonder they cannot copyright it if it’s literally forbidden to do. sad you need to loss 300k because you cannot read
and mess on marketplace is other pair of boots, that is also unrelated to lawsuit. but i get it, you need to use common catchphrases from the lack of any actual other arguments against something