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The lawsuit you mention was before the lawsuit between Big West/Studio Vue vs. Tatsunoko in Japan. The lawsuit between HG and FASA was resolved out of court back before the ownership of who owns what between Big West/Studio Nue and Tatsunoko was resolved. If the case was taken to court now, HG would lose since the US courts are required to use the Japanese rulings.
The designs that FASA purchased from Studio Nue was legal, not illegal as you claim, as the Japanese courts' ruling backs up FASA's claims not HG's.
Except they had to settle it in court, ergo what they did violated business law and was forcibly settled with a payout in a civil court. That's not legal, that's not "on the level" that's "oops, we got caught, better pay money until this goes away".
As for the case being taken to court now, that's totally irrelevant since this occurred over two decades ago and most of the involved parties don't actually exist in a fashion that would be similar to how they existed then. International IP law is also much different now.
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You can claim otherwise, but the fact remains that GW stole from a lot of people and made a profit off of it.
Cite an example, one. just one. If all you have is "Well that looks kinda like this thing" then you have nothing and don't know what intellectual property theft is.
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Tyranids were always inspired by HG Geiger's work and their storyline was lifted from Ridley Scott's vision for Alien. This is evident by the earlier comics and books that Scott signed off on and how the aliens grew to be a galaxy spanning threat to everything long before GW put in the Tyranids.
Which has no relevance to the tyranids at all. Riddley scotts feral and animalist alien race with no ships, no controlling intelligence, one specific form of breeding, and a standard and set visual style has nothing to do with GWs extragalactic bee swarm that eats planets and comes in a million different shapes and sizes.
This is not riddley scotts Alien.
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They lifted the entire concept of nuns with guns from Renegade Nuns with Guns since GW, as an importer, imported the game to the UK. They did the same thing with using Judge Dredd in Rogue Trader and other games they had a license to put out.
So now we're no longer using the term theft as theft in any legalistic sense, just what is vaguely "similar". I trust you get mad about marvel comics stealing the idea of "superheros" and transformers for stealing the idea of "transforming robots". Also, I can't believe you're still running with the nuns and guns angle, fetishwear women in post apocalyptic settings has been a trope of the film and gaming industry since the 60's. Nuns and guns was literally a spoof of something, you can not steal a concept from something that is spoofing that concept, that is absolute nonsense.
For whatever hate you may have for early GW's constant references in it's artwork and themes (and there were many (almost every Schwarzenegger film star is a GW character somewhere and one of the primarchs is named Micheal Sheen) they have never "stolen" anything. They've taken concepts and altered them significantly, and in their modern incarnations GWs two settings are unique, deep, and wholly different from their competitors.
What has battletech done in the last 20 years to evolve and change with the times, precisely? Other than get sold four times and drive two companies out of business.
Edited by Shumabot, 14 June 2013 - 01:03 PM.