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by dvh 197 days ago
Former game dev here, drenched in cold sweat! Drop anything you are doing and immediately erase any mention of the 4-letter genre (words 3,4,5,6 in the title of your post). It is trademarked term and the holder goes VERY aggressively after it, including it's 4 letter acronym. I strongly suggest deleting the GitHub repo if it contains that phrase and create new GitHub repo without it. Use something like "interactive adventure" or something like that.
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javawizard 197 days ago
Oh my god you're right. That's so annoying.

Even Netflix got sued over a Black Mirror spinoff that used the phrase. They countersued to invalidate the trademark; the suit was settled under undisclosed terms. I would love to know how that went down and why there wasn't an obvious path to success for Netflix...

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progbits 197 days ago
Or you know, not make life easy for abusers by just giving up and rolling over.

"words 3,4,5,6 in the title" what is this, voldemort?

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