{"id":7003,"date":"2004-11-13T16:05:14","date_gmt":"2004-11-13T23:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/11\/13\/no-homages-for-you.html"},"modified":"2004-11-13T16:05:14","modified_gmt":"2004-11-13T23:05:14","slug":"no_homages_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/13\/no_homages_for.html","title":{"rendered":"“No homages for you!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, here’s a swift move that will no doubt make Marvel the favorite company of any number of fans and potential fans. Marvel is suing the City of Heroes<\/em> folks<\/a> because players of the online game can use its extremely flexible character design to design characters that look and act like … well, Marvel super-heroes.<\/p>\n

How … adult of them.<\/p>\n

It’s not that CoH has Marvel characters, or knock-offs thereof, inherently in it. It’s just that there’s nothing to stop players from creating<\/em> big, strong, angry characters with green skin and purple pants. Or agile fighters with claws coming out of their hands and yellow\/black\/blue costumes. Or … well, you get the idea. And, in fact, players can name their characters … well, whatever they want. Including names that are trademarked by Marvel.<\/p>\n

This is, of course, the fault of the software publisher and the company that hosts the game on their servers.<\/p>\n

Feh. I think Scott Kurtz’s commentary on the subject is spot on<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey, here’s a swift move that will no doubt make Marvel the favorite company of any number of fans and potential fans. Marvel is suing the City of Heroes folks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics","category-media-moguls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7662,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/20\/marvel_vs_city.html","url_meta":{"origin":7003,"position":0},"title":"Marvel vs. City of Heroes","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 20-Jan-05 10:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"NCSoft has filed for dismissal in the suit brought against them by Marvel, which suit claims that City of Heroes allows folks to generate clones of Marvel's trademarked and copyrighted...","rel":"","context":"In "Comics & Comic Books"","block_context":{"text":"Comics & Comic Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-comics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":135656,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/14\/marvel-universes-collide.html","url_meta":{"origin":7003,"position":1},"title":"When Marvel Universes Collide!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Dec-17 10:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"This article gets a little breathlessly geeky in places, but there's no doubt that the folk running Marvel Pictures right now are salivating over finally getting their hands on the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises -- heroes and villains alike. 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