Interplay vs. Bethesda, Continued

Remember how Bethesda claimed Interplay could only use the Fallout name for Fallout Online, then Interplay counter-claimed that that’s a stupid thing to claim, then Bethesda’s counter-claimed Interplay’s counter-claim? Yes? Well the Vault has the transcript of the court dismissing that final counter-claim, and one can tell the judge is having a hard time taking Bethesda’s claim seriously.

But is the value of that — unlike Walt Disney I do not necessarily agree that there is an equation here between Fallout and Walt Disney. There may be an equation here between Walt Disney and either Interplay and Bethesda as opposed to Snow White and Fallout. So, let’s set that aside.

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Let me ask you this about your analogy, what if someone was allowed to use the mark Snow White but none of the characters or pictures or storyline or anything else, so what they did is they labeled it Snow White but you look at it and it is Donald Duck?