yes one fits on a label and the other one does [in europe at least].There is a difference between labelling something 'Space Marine shoulder pads' and 'shoulder pads compatible with Space Marines'.
yes one fits on a label and the other one does [in europe at least].There is a difference between labelling something 'Space Marine shoulder pads' and 'shoulder pads compatible with Space Marines'.
That is why god invented small font.
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Chapterhouse is not attempting to hijack 40K, nor are they attempting to market their own ruiles or army. What they are doing is serving the market for alternate units, for bits with which to personalize units, and for those units that GW has shown no inclination to make. That last bit, I'll agree, is dodgy... but allow me to draw everyone's attention to a perhaps somewhat parallel situation.
I offer for everyone's contemplation (word of the day, sorry) the situations of the computer game franchises Doom and Diablo. Fopr anyone who doesn't know, the Doom series were first person shooter games from the nineties and two-thousands; Diablo was a third-person adventure/RPG/clickfest. The original games were released, they sold well, and then modders got ahold of them and started publishing a LOT of homebrew.
Did either publisher jump on the modders, some of which did indeed sell their products? Hell no. Diablo one and two are still selling today, coming up on twenty years since publication in Diablo one's case. The Doom franchise actually hired the top three mod teams for their expansions and sequels. The modders extended the saleable lifetimes of the core games many times over.
Now Diablo 3 approaches, and Blizzard seems to have girded it's loins and geared up to go to war with the modders. I think this is a mistake, and I predict that Diablo 3 will be on the fifty percent off sale shelves within six months of release for precisely these reasons; no support for modders, and a legal team that's been fed raw meat by Blizzard's backers.
CHS, Mantic, and the others are not hurting the core 40K game; they are supporting it. Okay, GW is not making money off them directly. But they are benefitting indirectly, and that seems to have been overlooked here.
GW isn't 'going to war with modders' to use your analogy, it has taken one company of a multitude to court for breaches of its trademarks (which there almost certainly is a case to answer) and copyrights (very grey area, hard to say, hence the ongoing court case).
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Skaven are based upon traditional Japanese fables especially those from the Edo period involving yōkai and nezumi. There is nothing new about social groups of vile rat men, just the scale of the infestation.
One could say that Skaven like many things GW have done is derivative, which I think is a more appropriate word for much of what people are attempting to say when they post "rip off". "Rip off" implies intent to deceive or steal for one's own use. Derivative work is an inspired adaptation. There is a rather significant difference.
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It is still irrelevent, though, as CHS selling shoulder pads as 'Space Marine shoulder pads' is still infringing upon GWs trademarks whatever may or may not fit on the packaging.
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