LucasArts in Trademark Dispute over Abandonware
I have very fond memories of spending the night at my friend Mark's house in middle school, staying up all night playing on his PC (he was the only one of our group that had Windows 95), obsessing over games like Warcraft II and The Dig. I played The Dig all the way through in one sitting, and from what I can remember it was a masterpiece.
I can also remember that it was OVER TEN YEARS AGO. While not technically abandonware (mainly because technically software cannot be technically abandonware anyway) it's still an older program. Classic? Yes. Still commercially viable? No. So it surprised me to see that LucasArts is currently in a trademark dispute with Digg over the fact that the two names sound the same. What the fuck?
It's as if a bigwig over at LucasArts had absolutely nothing to do one day, and just started comparing names of big websites to their own intellectual properties. You know what, LucasArts? I'll save you the trouble. Here are some more people to go after.
At least this recent litigious activity might mean that LucasArts plans on releasing more games in the Dig property? I could dig that.
