Cory Doctorow on the Very Bad IP Legal Behaviour of Games Workshop

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Long Twitter thread. Go read it, starting here:

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1421215457206431744

Alternative, non-tracking venue for the same content:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/30/space-marines/#fairy-use-tale

I note that I own or co-own a few pieces of IP myself, including this weblog, and have created others under work-for-hire rules for other companies. There are still things that I - or any IP (co-)owner shouldn't expect to get away with.

Comments

[kmusser]

I wouldn't worry about that, in part because of their refusal to work with anyone else in the gaming industry they aren't a industry standard for anything, if other companies were going to go down that path I think they would've long before now. The only other one that is kind of an ass about IP is Steve Jackson, but they aren't a big enough company to really throw any weight around.