Recently, the Mojang community had been sued by the videogame commpany Bethesda.
When minecraft was trademarked, they had also been working on a game called “scrolls”. As you may know Bethesda had produced the video game known as The Elder Scrolls. Recently, notch had received an email from a lawyer of bethesda saying about the two titles contrasting, and that the bethesda video had been trademarked, and asking more about the mojang scrolls game and what trademark they were appealing for. “I agree that the word ?Scrolls? is part of that trademark, but as a gamer, I have never ever considered that series of (very good) role playing games to be about scrolls in any way, nor was that ever the focal point of neither their marketing nor the public image.” -Notch. Notch said “[Bethesda] did not have a case but we still took it seriously.” Notch said. On aug 4th notch received a 15 page law firm asking Mojang to pay a large fee of money to bethesda and stop them from using the name scrolls before anything legal had been decided.
Sounds about right. A larger, more corporate company suing a smaller one. What a silly lawsuit!
Before anyone gets there panty’s in a knot,bethesda layers are the ones that pretty much doing it,layers are funny that way,Notch even states that it might just be them but we will see.
And like notch,still love bethesda. <3
This is interesting, but so is his last two posts about the infinite rendering engine. I saw the video about it recently and did get hyped up a bit. I love how open notch is about this stuff!
I’m just gonna leave this here…
DUDE, just read that, i hope they stream that, id love to see him fight Bethesda like that
LOL
It’s kind of sad that he would even have to resort to this. Notch clearly has the upper hand in the lawsuit so this challenge is Bethesda’s only chance of winning.
Might be worth it for the entertainment. Broadcast it!