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Take-Two Interactive and Remedy Entertainment are in a dispute over the letter RRemedy changed their logo to an R that’s apparently too much like another R
Remedy changed their logo to an R that’s apparently too much like another R
Image credit:Remedy Entertainment
Image credit:Remedy Entertainment
Right now the dispute is in the “cooling off period”, which is wherethe European Union Intellectual Property Officeask the parties to just try to figure it out, okay?? But the point is, though this is a months old petty grievance, someone has spotted it now, so I get to sort of snicker about it.
I understand that there are important reasons that companies will protect their trademarks, of course, and I don’t really understand the legal limits of how similar things can be, but when it gets to quibbling over the letter R it prompts me to think “Who owns letters? DoesGodown letters??” and things like that. Especially because, aside from being capital R letters, they’re a different font, andRockstar’s has a little star on itand Remedy’s is all, you know, messed up and fractured. There’s only so much you can do with a letter R (which I suppose is Take-Two’s point, but it took them five months to write that down so one would hope there’s more to it). Perhaps I’m biased because Take-Two hasa history of maybe being a bit aggressivewith this sort of thing.
But it’s interesting to think about where ownership of certain words, letters, or ideas start or end. There was a book Twitter drama last year about one writer accusing the other of plagiarismover, er, the sun.
