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A while back you may remember the creator of Minecraft, Notch, announcing Mojang?s next game, Scrolls. It was going to be a sort of fantasy/strategy game though details past its initial announcement were scarce.

Flash forward to now and Bethesda filed a complaint to Swedish courts against Mojang over their filing for the trademark, ?Scrolls,? feeling that the name infringes on their own game series, ?The Elder Scrolls.?

Notch explains on his tumblr that after being contacted by Bethesda?s lawyers for more information concerning the trademark, he attempted to make a compromise to help differentiate Mojang?s Scrolls from Bethesda?s The Elder Scrolls, like adding words after the word scrolls instead of before like, ?Scrolls ? The Banana Explosion.?

I would pay any amount of money for that game.

Unfortunately, not only did Notch not hear a response from Bethesda?s legal goon squad, he got a 15 page letter from them explaining that they are suing Mojang to stop them from using the name Scrolls and that they?ve already paid the Swedish courts for the case which I guess is the legal way of saying, ?We?re not going to drop this, get your wallets ready.?

Notch is personally hoping this is just the legal machine at work about legal trademarks and not the creative minds of Bethesda and I?m hoping for that too. I mean, how could the creators of Oblivion and Fallout 3 act like this? Somebody at Bethesda is going to have to pass the buck several times to deflect the negative PR.

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Source: http://www.multiplayergames.com/2011/08/07/bethesda-suing-minecraft-creator-over-the-word-scrolls/

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