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TSR is Coming Back? Or it is Back?

Started by Shawn Driscoll, June 17, 2021, 07:17:39 PM

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hoshisabi

There's reports on a lot of the D&D news sites that they've already dropped the lawsuit, but they're still raising money in the Indigogo. So... take that for what you like.

But there's been analysis done of the lawsuit, and it's a dangerous path for them to tread (so says the IP lawyer that weighed in on Twitter). They're trying to claim abandonment of trademarks and copyrights for which they also received a Cease and Desist to not use themselves, but in the same lawsuit they point out how those trademarks and copyrights are being sold with a disclaimer which they don't like.

So you have to wonder: are they NOT being sold, and thus abandoned and thus there's no disclaimer for them to object to, or is there a disclaimer on some things that are being sold and thus the trademarks and copyrights aren't abanadoned?