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City of Heroes
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Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
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City of Heroes is the first superhero themed online RPG and will offer a host of exciting and compelling gameplay features. Players create their own heroes, choosing from hundreds of different powers, skills, abilities, and items and design their ...
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15-08-05 Review for Pc
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02-06-08 Double experience in CoH/V
11-07-07 NCSoft buys City of Heroes IP
03-07-07 New stuff for City of Heroes
08-15-05 PC Review: City of Heroes
03-12-05 City of Heroes vs Marvel: 1 - 0
01-12-05 City of Heroes goes European
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City of Heroes vs Marvel: 1 - 0
Marvel is the wellknown publisher of famous American comics like X-Men, Spiderman, The Incredible Hulk, etc.. NCSoft and Cryptic Studios created the popular mmog City of Heroes in which you can create your own superhero to fight evil. Marvel saw a reason to start a lawsuit in the fact that City of Heroes-players could create heroes which almost had the looks of the 'real' ones.
A judge has now decided to dissmiss several accusations against NCSoft and Cryptic:
In a March 9 order, U.S. District Court Judge R. Gary Klausner agreed with NCsoft that some of Marvel’s allegations and exhibits should be stricken as “false and sham” because certain allegedly infringing works depicted in Marvel’s pleadings were created not by users, but by Marvel itself.
The judge also dismissed more than half of Marvel’s claims against NCsoft and Cryptic Studios, including Marvel’s claims that the defendants directly infringed Marvel’s registered trademarks and are liable for purported infringement of Marvel’s trademarks by City of Heroes’ users. In addition, he dismissed Marvel’s claim for a judicial declaration that defendants are not an online service provider under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The judge dismissed all of these claims without leave to amend, meaning that Marvel cannot refile these claims.
The judge also dismissed more than half of Marvel’s claims against NCsoft and Cryptic Studios, including Marvel’s claims that the defendants directly infringed Marvel’s registered trademarks and are liable for purported infringement of Marvel’s trademarks by City of Heroes’ users. In addition, he dismissed Marvel’s claim for a judicial declaration that defendants are not an online service provider under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The judge dismissed all of these claims without leave to amend, meaning that Marvel cannot refile these claims.
A small victory for the accused companies but then again some charges remain. Hopefully the thousands of players of the game won't be a victim of an eventual negative outcome of the trial.
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