Spikey Bits is reporting that a games store owner and legal council David Moore is suing Games Workshop for $62.5m in an American court.
As the Spikey Bits video notes this lawsuit seems to have gone under the radar. It’s two months old. Indeed, a search on Google News is not fruitful, doesn’t find much in the way of supporting coverage, however Spikey Bits cites a few sources.
Games Workshops alleged crimes? Fraud, Price Fixing, Tortuous Interference, Breach of Contract, Unjust Enrichment, Restraint of Trade, Conspiracy and Antitrust Violations.
Spikey Bit don’t link to court sites but have PDFs of the documents up on their site. For now the links are for the Complaint, Affidavit in Support of Complaint, Orders of Instructions and Scheduling & Discovery.
Why so much? Spikey Bits says that Moore is going to use any victory to create a fund and use it move Games Workshop’s IP to public domain.
Big news or pinch of salt time? You can read Spikey Bits’ full break down. If you watch the video then 20 minutes the host talks about DoS attacks coming out of Nottingham, England, taking down retailers they dislike.
Let us not forget lasgun is a term from the original Dune novel long before 40k stole it.
I think GW draws on a lot of sources of inspiration – Genestealers vs Aliens?
I think the main question is whether this lawsuit really exists. Why doesn’t Spikey Bits link to any court sites?
The Florida Southern District Court has no information on the case numbers listed in the documents.
Further, a number of the claims listed in the document are clearly hyperbolic “110% stolen”, etc.
That’s not something you usually see in a serious legal claim, since we’re talking about law, rules of evidence. What exactly is 110% of something?
This looks an awful lot like an attention grab. He may indeed be intent on filing, that doesn’t mean it will make it past the clerk of court, much less before a judge.
10% more than exists duh. Not only did they steal, they stole so much there’s now a negative number of the things they stole. ;)
Actual legal documents, including judgements written by actual judges, can be pretty snarky. If you want a giggle this is a great one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7haZ3ekuSg Hopefully at some point Leonard French will have time to cover this one. I doubt it has a chance of going anywhere except the judge’s waste paper bin given that Moore doesn’t seem to have any standing for any of the IP stuff he’s claiming (and the legal precedent would be comical, sorry Disney you didn’t invent mice so Mickey is public domain now…), and is unlikely to be able to show any damages, the stuff… Read more »