2012-02-10, 02:59 AM
In Valve's response:
"Opposer cannot claim exclusive rights to the DOTA mark."
Sounds like Valve is agreeing that DotA started with Warcraft II and III, but that does not signify that just because the idea was created using their world editor that the idea of DotA belongs to Blizzard - only the map and assets. The idea is responsible to its creator.
This will be a good case to see how far copyrights/trademarks extend from world creators to the worlds they create.
I'm definitely on Blizzard's side here. But it's maddeningly stupid that they haven't filed a trademark on it thus far.
"Opposer cannot claim exclusive rights to the DOTA mark."
Sounds like Valve is agreeing that DotA started with Warcraft II and III, but that does not signify that just because the idea was created using their world editor that the idea of DotA belongs to Blizzard - only the map and assets. The idea is responsible to its creator.
This will be a good case to see how far copyrights/trademarks extend from world creators to the worlds they create.
I'm definitely on Blizzard's side here. But it's maddeningly stupid that they haven't filed a trademark on it thus far.