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It appears as if things have turned out just fine for DoomRL, Jupiter Hell and Kornel Kisielewicz, because DoomRL has just become "DRL". So everything is cool now, no more trademark problems =) (DoomRL has also gone open source).
DRL? Well, it´s open source now...But I´m more worried about the fact that the owners of Drone Racing League will give them a hard time (their logo = DRL).
That´s what I thought as well :S So perhaps that´s something that could cause the DoomRL developers a lot of problems in the future...
Yep, DRL is open source now (you can download it right now if you want to). Well, maybe they will, maybe not? But there´s always a risk of that.
My thoughts exactly...Because I have a feeling that ZeniMax Media won´t let them off their hook that easy.
I wonder how long it will take before Drone Racing League gets on their case...
Sometime next year, would be my guess. Because Drone Racing League is taking off big time now.
Could be today, could be tomorrow. I´m just surprised that they haven´t done anything yet.
Today has been a very mixed day of emotions for me (Robin Ek, TGG), because I just found out that it seems like Zenimax Media wants to close down the "DoomRL" site. So this is my take on that matter.
In other words, the devs will have to change the DoomRL into something else?
As far as I can tell that would be correct...I think that the Jupiter Hell project is homesafe though.
Isn´t there a risk that Zenimax could sue the devs for loss of incom or something?
Well, a lot of people have downloaded the game, and there´s quite a lot of live download links to be found as well. So, yeah.
For now, just look at Nintendo...They use bots that crawl all over the Internet to do DMCA claims and whatnot.
That´s why it´s never a good idea to use a famous IP/trademark in your title name...
True, but that also makes me wonder why ZeniMax doesn´t go after Brutal Doom and Brutal Doom 64? Not that I want that, but it makes no sense to me why they would slam DoomRL but not those games.
I have no idea whatsoever, maybe they saw red when the devs launched the Jupiter Hell Kickstarter campaign?
@Littil_Devil "For now, they might even pull the plug on that one as well."
Don´t give them any ideas now...
It would be a real shame if that would happen, because the game is doing really will on Kickstarter.
@Simon_the_sorcerer "Well, a lot of people have downloaded the game, and there´s quite a lot of live download links to be found as well. So, yeah."
The installer version has been downloaded almost 80K times:
https://doom.chaosforge.org...
@Simon_the_sorcerer "Isn´t there a risk that Zenimax could sue the devs for loss of incom or something?"
There is always a risk of such a thing, I got no such vibes while reading through their e-mail to Kornel Kisielewicz.
ZeniMax Media has slapped Jupiter Hell developer, Kornel Kisielewicz with an order to remove all references to Doom on ChaosForge websites.
That's crazy. No actions taken on the game, but freaking out about mention of it?
Just decapitalize the RL. It then becomes one word and Zenimax has zero rights to it.
