Can Napoleonic: Total War mod makers sue?

Or at least make a fuss and ruckus for publicity? I certainly would if I had a mod like that, not out of any malice, but just to see if CA actually looks at our mods.

Dude, modders are the ones making use of someone else's intellectual property, not the other way around.

Not the concept, the name

The name ''Total War'' is intellectual property of CA, so if anything the modders of that mod could still be sued.

Logically, they cannot own the phrase "total war" save for in the case of referring to their game franchise. The use of mods is expressely allowed. The phrase "total war" could probably be saved in the event of a mod use through plausible deniability and a very good lawyer.

But putting together "Napoleon Total War" just seems like a blatant copy.

Though at the same time, it could as well pass off as a coincidence or plausible deniability

Originally Posted by AndariusHaliusScipio

Logically, they cannot own the phrase "total war" save for in the case of referring to their game franchise.

http://www.tigsource.com/pages/edge-games

The law ain't logical.

But seriously, yes, the modders could sue. I could go sue a monkey for having more hair on his head than I do (goddamned monkeys!). They would not win, and it would cost them a ton of money, but they could do it.

Originally Posted by AndariusHaliusScipio

Logically, they cannot own the phrase "total war" save for in the case of referring to their game franchise. The use of mods is expressely allowed. The phrase "total war" could probably be saved in the event of a mod use through plausible deniability and a very good lawyer.

But putting together "Napoleon Total War" just seems like a blatant copy.

Though at the same time, it could as well pass off as a coincidence or plausible deniability

are you referring to The lordz mod of rome? if you are who cares it sucked and was broken, losers wasted there time since CA came out with there own version, lol

I bet Andarius is an American...not saying anything... but if they went to Mc Donalds and put on weight... they'd be filling in a complaints form, and want to sue them!. lol...

Originally Posted by XxGREAT-BRITAINx

I bet Andarius is an American...not saying anything... but if they went to Mc Donalds and put on weight... they'd be filling in a complaints form, and want to sue them!. lol...

Get off your high horse, the U.K. isn't any more perfect than the U.S. or any other country.

Originally Posted by XxGREAT-BRITAINx

I bet Andarius is an American...not saying anything... but if they went to Mc Donalds and put on weight... they'd be filling in a complaints form, and want to sue them!. lol...

Hahaha well unfortunately, your kinda on the ball. Americans sue over everything! It is quite annoying. It's kind of like how the mom tried to sue mcdonalds cause her kid got fat eating their food... Just tell your kid to stop eating!

That's okay. I'm not insulted. We've got the bombs, and the state-of-the-art military after all. We're also allowed to be Nazis without being arrested for it. Freedom ahoy!

Ha! and you want to be a Nazi? lol.

And waht Great Britain hasn't got bombs? or the best special foces in the world, that I will mention, train your lot. the best army in terms of training. the best tactics, thats why we teach your officers at sandhurst. we have the most advanced anti air battle ship on earth. the type 45 destroyer. we have the royal marines, mi5 mi6 nukes... oh and didi mention we're in the EU.. so yh.. wanna attack us?? go ahead.. se if you can beat the might of europe.

Originally Posted by XxGREAT-BRITAINx

Ha! and you want to be a Nazi? lol.

And waht Great Britain hasn't got bombs? or the best special foces in the world, that I will mention, train your lot. the best army in terms of training. the best tactics, thats why we teach your officers at sandhurst. we have the most advanced anti air battle ship on earth. the type 45 destroyer. we have the royal marines, mi5 mi6 nukes... oh and didi mention we're in the EU.. so yh.. wanna attack us?? go ahead.. se if you can beat the might of europe.

And sure England has bombs, but we have a lot more. And so what if you have the best special forces in the world? You say yourself, you trained ours! Isn't that a classic literary trope of the apprentice overcoming the master and becoming the master themself? Watch your back :O

Because this is the thread for comparing nationalist penis size.

Originally Posted by XxGREAT-BRITAINx

Ha! and you want to be a Nazi? lol.

And waht Great Britain hasn't got bombs? or the best special foces in the world, that I will mention, train your lot. the best army in terms of training. the best tactics, thats why we teach your officers at sandhurst. we have the most advanced anti air battle ship on earth. the type 45 destroyer. we have the royal marines, mi5 mi6 nukes... oh and didi mention we're in the EU.. so yh.. wanna attack us?? go ahead.. se if you can beat the might of europe.

Ummm we have 12 nuclear powered super carriers. the US has the most advanced and largest airforce and navy in the world. The brits do have amazing special forces though, and i do admit that. but the navy seals are quite good, and come close to the SAS.

im sorry but europe has gotten a bit pacifistic. They don't have strong wills to fight any wars. The only exceptions i can think of are the brits, and maybe the poles.

Not to mention that the member nations of the European union have no united foreign policy. It's a very loose confederation, pretty much only united economically, which as we have seen in the last few months, has been somewhat of a burden.

I don't want to be a Nazi. I love gays and jews and freedom too much. But if I ever wanted to, I could.

And sure England has bombs, but we have a lot more. And so what if you have the best special forces in the world? You say yourself, you trained ours! Isn't that a classic literary trope of the apprentice overcoming the master and becoming the master themself? Watch your back :O


Did we also mention that we have Canada and Mexico and Afghanistan and Iraq and Poland on our side? And while China may not be very friendly to us, I'm sure we've been far kinder to them than Britain has.

Turning it into a nationalistic thread is far better than diddling about with fantasies of sueing a company for stealing a name likely to be as commonly mutually thought up as two soda makers calling their stuff "Bubbly Drink"

Originally Posted by AndariusHaliusScipio

Turning it into a nationalistic thread is far better than diddling about with fantasies of sueing a company for stealing a name likely to be as commonly mutually thought up as two soda makers calling their stuff "Bubbly Drink"

No, it's not, because that would be on topic, and frankly a lot less ridiculous than your original premise.

In before the lock, woohoo!

Well my original idea seems to have been slightly misinterpreted, and now that it's been brought out into the open, sounds ridiculous even to me. The concept to me seemed to be that a team of modmakers make a mod based on the Napoleonic era of warfare and call it "Napoleonic Total War". Almost a decade later, the original company that made the games releases an expansion pack named "Napoleon Total War"

No, they cannot sue CA.

Lock the thread.