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Man what hypocrites.. and people looked up to them back in the day

guess we gotta sue medieval engineers for creating those awful spiked torture devices for stealing iron maiden's name too

Yeah they kinda deserve it then

#metoo

Ion=Nukem
Maiden=Duke

just change the name
also fuck this boomer metal trash band

They were OK'd by Steve Harris

This is exactly what ID wanted, though. It's free press
Exactly like what happened with Doom
and if you seriously think this lawsuit will actually go through your retarded

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>boomers trying to stay relevant

>>yeah dude rock is all about being in a #free society man
Maybe protest or punk rock.

They are also bitching about the logo, font and protag.

reminder that in 99% of those cases it's just the bands lawyer team acting on their own accord to get a bonus

>just change the name
Fuck that. I hope they take the boomers to court and fund a thousand SJW games just so show the /pol/ bootlickers a lesson.

Iron and ion are different words. Not only that but one is a band and another is a video game. There is no case.

I mean either way,
Iron Maiden are unoriginal fucks themselves and a good part of their songs are not entirely original

so what? It still isn't directly copying shit

Domino's pizza was sued by the company that owns Domino sugar for having too similar a name, as they weren't in direct competition with each other the case was eventually thrown out.

There's substantially less tying these two together, so I can't see how it could ever win based on precedent.

this
you're absolutely retarded if you think the actual band members have anything to do with this
it's just greedy american lawyers trying to fuck everybody over for yet another paycheck again

That's kind of retarded because it's not a trademark violation.

Why does it matter if the material is original or not? There are loads of covers of songs that surpass the originals, and even then plenty of artists can sound similar while pulling off the same shtick better than the originals.

Go fuck yourself you piece of human shit

It matters if they're suing someone else for not being original you retard

True, I didn't know about this. Seems like it went from a minor reference in a weapon name, to thinking it was cool enough to use as a name for the next game, since it fits. Still, Ion isn't Iron so I wonder how this will play out. Not surprised by settlement.

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I wonder what the lawyer's last name is.

Classic BritMetal Iron Maiden is overrated. Modern Symphonic Metal Iron Maiden is absolute kino.

Bands Lawyers who have to do something at least once a year to justify their paycheck and existence

The precedent is Apple Corps v Apple Computer, better known as Apple v Apple.
Even if it was called "Iron Maiden", it's not a band and it's not merchandising itself as such. Did these lawyers get their degree from Alabama or some shit?

Isn't an iron maiden an actual object though? That's like suing someone for naming their game Ball because you had a band name called Ball.

There was literally another Build game called Powerslave.

But I guess it's not the 90's anymore.

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they're not even close

It's close enough. You kinda have to be overzealous about protecting your trademarks or you risk losing them

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What are you implying?

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>Modern Symphonic Metal Iron Maiden is absolute kin
post exaMPLE PLS

i think they had to change the european name to exhumed due to legal reasons, if i'm not mistaken.

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youtu.be/KpRYw4d1lv0

Holy Hell this looks baller and cool as fuck

Anyone informed Randy about this?

Those faggots better run to the hills

you know what, ill accept it.

after reading the devs explaining the design behind their main character I dont feel sorry for them to be honest

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>SOUL
>SOULLESS

They're explicitly an Iron Maiden cover band

Interesting to point out, the DOS and console versions(Playstation and Saturn) play almost completely different. DOS is more map-based linear progression like classic Doom and Duke, while the console games play more like Metroidvanias that you have to backtrack in with previous levels. Both versions are great, though.

indeed

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For the last time, that weren't the devs but the CEO

the first, and last?

that's even worse

>"up the ions", a reference to the iron maiden slogan up the irons

Ironically that's not even an Iron Maiden slogan originally

I'll take boring and practical over no-hips twigleg western art, And that stomach tattoo is lame.

Boomers should just die already.

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lmao the one on the left is trashy af, good fucking riddance

This should be an easy case, unless Iron Maiden is a video game publisher.

Bit IRONic, innit
To make a game that's a love letter to heavy metal games of the 90s only to get sued by some modernized corporate sellout sham of a band that doesn't even follow the principals of its roots

Suck my ass, Lemmy.

the 90s stuff just feels out of place now.

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It's got shit enemies and boring weapons but the Metroid style levels and upgrades are cool.

/pol/ here
intellectual property is a jewish meme and iron maiden is a representation of the boomer legacy, the most jewed generation in western history. they deserve to be fucked, sucked, cucked, feeded and seeded in court for being a bunch of litigious geriatric kikes

It's amazing how two designs twenty years apart can both try too hard in such different ways.

They shouldn't've used a yellow skull; Maiden used that a few times. And they should've named it THE Ion Maiden. Steve Harris will probably lose, though. Maiden hasn't been good since Dance of the Death. Haven't been awesome since Fear of the Dark.

Iron maidens were never used as torture devices, they were created by 19th century set designers who tried thinking up visually appealing torture devices and people began to think they were always real.

they made a mobile game a few years ago, still on google play

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It's only free press if you win
it's a huge setback if you also gotta pay 2 millions

>he thinks Iron Maiden is gonna win

>ID

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youtube.com/watch?v=XklH0kj3mBs

It's stacked way in their favor
trademarks.justia.com/881/88/iron-88188482.html
trademarks.justia.com/760/72/n-a-76072253.html

No you don't Bethesda, Scrolls had fuck all to do with Elder Scrolls.

Remove all camo clothing on the left. Put on thigh high boots.
Give her full hair and those nuke earrings and she's set.

Nostalgia bait games are a pathetic trend and show the decadence of the genre at it's best, i rather support games that push it forward like Doom Eternal.

>earning millions of dollars using the namesake that killed and tortured billions
um big yikes there, Bruce.

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what world zoomers will bring upon us?

youtu.be/9CWTig2kBKE
youtu.be/y69VhqrkXsw

5 FOOT 6 THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST

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>stacked way in their favor
Any judge with a passing knowledge on parody is gonna dismiss it.

its like the time bethaesda sued mojang for using the word "scrolls"

Doesn't fulfill the criteria for parody
especially not in a trademark case

how can they sue when its not even the same name?

Based Iron Maiden, no peace for zoomers afraid of cleavage
youtube.com/watch?v=qUniS5alTiA

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>How can Coca Cola sue me if my product "Coa Cola" isn't using their name?

yes that is my point
i am banned from using the word coco or coal in any product name because a bunch of jews will execute me for using words that sound like their brand name?
its fucking retarded

they probably have no idea this is even happening. They're extremely well off and their tours to this date rake in millions for each memeber.

If the intention is to evoke the trademark, yes
In this case, the intention was to give homage to iron maiden via wordplay, inherently invoking the trademark

Proving yet again that dadrock bands are humongous douchebags

Book of Souls was awesome.

I hope Iron Maiden wins the lawsuit so I don't have to hear about this shit game ever again

zoom zoom on back to /r/eddit

Just change the title to FeMale

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>take preexisting word
>you now own it because you slapped it on a box

law is weird

>you now own it
Not really

>Haven't been awesome since Fear of the Dark.
Fear of the dark album was mediocrity incarnate.
They returned to some old form with Brave New World (ironic how they rip off Huxley's book but apparently it's ok when they do it) and The Final Frontier, but other than that they have been meh for the past 20 years with Steve Harris going bonkers with his neverending 20 minute circlejerk tracks. The Book Of Souls was insufferable shit that bored me to death.
They peaked with Seventh Son/Somewhere In Time and it has only ever been downhill from then on.
It's funny how when I was a boy I didn't like their first two albums with Di'Anno, because of their roughness, almost punk-like snottyness, but now I adore them.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZhGS-JI_FRs

GOATEST track, Dickinson sounds like a cock sucking faggot trying to sing it.

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And it's not even the same word. The band registered IRON Maiden, not ION Maiden.

I guess I can market my Bepsi because it's not the same word

RUN TOOOOOO THEEEEE HIIIIILLLLSSSS

Iron maiden is based and video games are fucking gay

Medieval is suing iron maiden over stealing the name of its torture device.

Activision is suing Medieval over stealing the name of their Total War game

current decade gayming certainly is
youtube.com/watch?v=UwLtyvGdNbc

>devs say the name is based on the torture device
>judge dismisses case
That was hard.

Judas Priest was always better

maybe... maybe not
youtube.com/watch?v=lpVUMuLLqug

are you some special kind of retard?

whens vidya release

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Hope they sue this cunt too.

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>/pol/ here
stopped reading there

yea im generation x (44yo - 1974) who loved their music but fuck that shit

fuck those shitheads, money hungry who prbly think there better than my fellow next generation Millennials and yx'ers... i tell my nephew all the time (a yx'er) you got your whole future ahead of you

>An ion is an atom or molecule that has a net electrical charge.
>Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from Latin: ferrum) and atomic number 26.
Ion=/=Iron
Developers should sue boomer band back.