Blizzard Relents: Admits That It’s Okay To Sell A Book About World Of Warcraft
Greg Beck, the attorney for Public Citizen who handled this case, writes in to let us know that Blizzard, makers of World of Warcraft have settled their case with the maker of a guide to the game. If you’ll remember, the guidebook’s author felt the need to sue Blizzard after they kept demanding eBay shut down auctions of the guidebook, despite the fact that there was nothing infringing in the book. Blizzard would issue DMCA takedown notices, which eBay would comply with. The author, Brian Kopp, would file a counterclaim which Blizzard would ignore. eBay would rightfully put the item back up… only to have Blizzard quickly hit them with another takedown notice. In this manner, they kept the book from being sold repeatedly, despite having no actual legal basis to do so. In the settlement, Blizzard agreed to stop sending such takedown notices, and Kopp agrees… um… to keep the book as it is now.
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