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M.C.A. Hogarth
Personal blog · mcahogarth.orgwritingculture
M.C.A. Hogarth's personal blog at mcahogarth.org covers writing and culture. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its coverage of Games Workshop's 'space marine' trademark dispute and Amazon's removal of a book. Commenters cite its details on the US trademark registrations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Author and artist M.C.A. Hogarth: 25+ years of hand-made, optimistic science fiction with non-human protagonists (the Peltedverse), fantasy, and coloring books.
Most-linked posts?
- /?p=99992 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-06
What Hacker News says?
Yes, but "Space Marine" is an extremely weak mark, and evidently it is only registered in one class of goods and services (in the US): " board games, parlor games, war games, hobby games, toy models and miniatures of buildings, scenery, figures, automobiles, vehicles, planes, trains and card games and paint, sold therewith. " [1] I don't think the claim is baseless, but I don't see how this is a must litigate scenar…
Comment linking /?p=5075
on “In the future, all space marines will be Warhammer 40K space marines”Submitted In the future, all space marines will be Warhammer 40K space marines as a story · 270 points
HN discussionGW has the printed material trademark in Europe. They complained to Amazon UK, which caused Amazon to remove it from everything. http://mcahogarth.org/?p=9999 This strikes me as more of an issue with Amazon than anything else, because they should have only removed the book from the markets where it the complaint was raised, instead of everywhere.
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on “In the future, all space marines will be Warhammer 40K space marines”Actually in the US, which is relevant because the claim was on an Amazon US hosted product and against a US writer, Games Workshop only has the following trademarks for "SPACE MARINE": 1. Registration Number 2100767 - Goods and Services IC 028. US 022. G & S: board games, parlor games, war games, hobby games, toy models and miniatures of buildings, scenery, figures, automobiles, vehicles, planes, trains and card gam…
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on “Row blows up over ownership of 'space marine' term”