If it's anything like music becoming public domain, it's something like 75 years.
No, I believe that's copyright. Trademarks are totally different things. It might not even apply to something like this.
Ten years of disuse, by which time you'll be able to run the entire CoX cluster on your ******* phone.
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All that would allow you is to use the name City of Heroes in... what... 5 years? If they dont ever use it again. But it wont allow you to make a copy of any character name or story or art. Also: that's the US, you will have to see how other countries handle trademarks.
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Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
No, I believe that's copyright. Trademarks are totally different things. It might not even apply to something like this.
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Exactly. It only refers to the NAME. The intellectual property is a different story.
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Originally Posted by Starsman
All that would allow you is to use the name City of Heroes in... what... 5 years? If they dont ever use it again. But it wont allow you to make a copy of any character name or story or art.
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I'm not a lawyer, but I seem to recall that trademark law in the United States requires you to actually use your trademark in some active way, or else you risk it be considered abandoned and you'll lose your rights to it. This is why Chevron operates sixteen of their gas stations under the "Standard" brand.
So... what, we just have to wait until City of Heroes has been dead for however many years it takes until someone else tries to snatch it up? I think that's how Lucky ended up coming up from the ashes long after Albertsons had taken it! Though the people who tried to take it ended up losing in court anyway.
Yeah, I don't know.