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Marvel sues over City of Heroes
According to a story written by the Associated Press today, Marvel Enterprises is suing South Korea-based NCsoft and San Jose-based Cryptic Studios over their MMORPG City of Heroes. Marvel claims that that the game allows players to create characters which are too similar to the Hulk, X-Men, and other heroes from their comic book series, violating their trademarks. Marvel is seeking unspecified damages and an injunction against the two companies to stop using its characters.
Sigh. Marvel suing over a lack of creativity. Guh.
According to a story written by the Associated Press today, Marvel Enterprises is suing South Korea-based NCsoft and San Jose-based Cryptic Studios over their MMORPG City of Heroes. Marvel claims that that the game allows players to create characters which are too similar to the Hulk, X-Men, and other heroes from their comic book series, violating their trademarks. Marvel is seeking unspecified damages and an injunction against the two companies to stop using its characters.
Sigh. Marvel suing over a lack of creativity. Guh.
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But Marvel's going after a game-maker for giving users the ability to make a character (arguably) similar to their own. By that logic, couldn't they sue Adobe for making software which allows people to infringe on their copyright?
And like you pointed out, there's not much room for new ideas in comics anymore...a Marvel lawyer could probably pick through 40% of the heroes in COH and assign to them a Marvel character that they are "infringing." (And DC would be there before you could say "prior art.")