Copyright and Trademark tags - Interplay or Bethesda?

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Just wondering which we should use, now that Bethesda owns the rights and whatnot. vomit

For example in Fallout and Fallout 2 in Credits or main menu etc, should it say copyright Interplay Productions or copyright Bethesda/ZeniMax? Not sure what the "cover my ass even though it's a free mod" choice would be.

Fallout 2: Copyright 1999 Black Isle Studios
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Fallout 2: Copyright Bethesa SoftWorks LLC
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Thanks
 
I don't think Bethesda actually owns the rights to Fallout 1-2. I think they just own the rights to publish new games. Because when the Fallout Collection Pack was recently released (like 2009), Interplay and Black Isles trademarks were on it, not Bethesda.
 
BigBoss said:
I don't think Bethesda actually owns the rights to Fallout 1-2. I think they just own the rights to publish new games. Because when the Fallout Collection Pack was recently released (like 2009), Interplay and Black Isles trademarks were on it, not Bethesda.
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Yes but the subsequent lawsuit was settled after 2009, I think 2012 actually
 
Depends on if Bethesda has renewed the copy right and shit?

Besides, doesn't it fall to them to send distributors updated versions of the game with their name on it? And not, y'know, modders?
 
I think it' copyright Interplay, but you have to write another line like "Fallout is a property of Zenimax Media, inc."
 
I just read to find out that the dispute is still unsettled between Interplay and Bethesda to decide who has the rights to sell Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics. They are apparently still fighting over these rights.

Also, the Fallout: Classic Collection was released officially in 2010.
 
I think everything releated to Fallout 1 or 2 and tactics is copyright of Iplay. Anything about Fallout in general by Bethesda.

Sounds confusing. And its probably wrong. But thats how it seems to me.
 
Interplay has them on copies being sold at GoG.com for the time being, but they all revert to Bethesda at the end of 2013, as I recall. The Trademarks may be changed then if Bethesda bothers to rerelease the game then.
 
Interplay just "licensed back" the publishing rights of Fallout 1/2, and they're losing it soon enough. Bethesda owns all the marks.

It's not your responsibility if you leave the official credit statements unchanged, so I wouldn't worry about it. If you want to be sure, something like "Fallout 2 published 1999 Interplay/Black Isle Studios, "Fallout" is a registered trademark owned by Bethesda Softworks LLC"
 
you know ... in 10 years 80% of the people playing Fallout games out there will believe Bethesda, and only Bethesda invented Fallout.

But yeah ... thats how things go I guess, I mean does anyone really remember the original Turtles anymore? I mean before they decided to make them "kidz friendly".
 
My children will know that Bethsoft did'nt created Fallout.
They'll hold the truth in a crumbling world!
 
Brother None said:
Interplay just "licensed back" the publishing rights of Fallout 1/2, and they're losing it soon enough. Bethesda owns all the marks.

It's not your responsibility if you leave the official credit statements unchanged, so I wouldn't worry about it. If you want to be sure, something like "Fallout 2 published 1999 Interplay/Black Isle Studios, "Fallout" is a registered trademark owned by Bethesda Softworks LLC"
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Yeah that's what I was thinking too, after the thread started getting replies.

Thanks. You win!


Per said:
http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2008/09/14/the-witness/
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I'm not entirely sure how this is relevant, even metaphorically; then again, I'm not very good at literary metaphor.

That being said, that author really needs to read "Eats, Shoot & Leaves". Their application of sentence structure and punctuation is terrible.
 
It's about a man remarking how the world is a darker place because the last man who remembered/knew/witnessed the old pagan rituals was dead, so no one alive really knew them first hand. He wondered what else would die with him and what the world would lose with him.
 
Crni Vuk said:
But yeah ... thats how things go I guess, I mean does anyone really remember the original Turtles anymore? I mean before they decided to make them "kidz friendly".
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I do.
 
Sometimes I get the notion that there's an entire industry dedicated to deliberately rebooting and raping old movies and cartoons just so they can rerelease the originals and tap into the whole nostalgia business.
 
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