GW issue C&D to BoardGameGeek

[Tensor]

One of many posts:
[url]http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/48933[/url]

Boardgame Geek is a very important source in the boardgaming world. It hosts lots of things on all sorts of games including rules summaries and fan created additional content. This past week they have been hit with a C&D asking them to remove ALL gw related content. They have done so - I can only presume to avoid legal costs.

This seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater to me. Rules summaries and things fair enough but fan created content? Things like additional scenarios, and dare I say it Minidexes are being swept up in the current actions.

[Melissia]

It's very similar to Toei and other companies removing all the AMVs from youtube and other sites...

[Bigred]

Moved to wargames-corporate, not 40k specific.

Carry on by all means.

[Kefka]

GW has done stuff like this before. I guess I can understand wanting rules for games to be taken down, they want to sell their game product. but why go to sites like this? I mean, there is a website that has ALL the Mordheim stuff on it, but GW has never taken action against it, yet they attack BGG (a great site btw) It seems GW just attacks who they feel like, and throw their weight around when they think we are getting too comfortable.

[Bigred]

Also note GW licensed the rights to most of those old boardgames to FFG, who is keen to republish new editions of many of them.

[Baron Spikey]

[URL="http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?community=&catId=&categoryId=&pIndex=3 &aId=3900002&start=4"]What you can and can't do with GW's IP[/URL]

Paraphrasing what Galahad said on Heresy-Online, GW are making an example of Board Game Geek- they scanned GW copyrighted materials and so lost out on all thier privileges on having ANY GW related articles on their site...I'm sure GW will get round to that Mordheim site in good time and hit them with an equally weighty (if not weightier) C&D.