Lord Abaddon
Sr Member
Exactly, and basically he was supporting TWO well known legal firms (from what other legal counsels have said). How long to keep doing both? Through a possibly long, drawn out USA case? Or cut that loss, after the initial shot-in-the-dark, and then just support the local UK one. That makes fiscal sense to me.
And I don't think this was ever really a copyright case overall, as evidenced in his careful avoidance of the use of Star Wars in the sales and such on the websites. I think (again all assumptions of course) that he took a shot at getting it thrown out in the USA under a copyright but his "fight" was always more creation. Now...how is that different? I haven't a clue, but we've heard (at the RPB) that in the UK it *is* considered different. Will that have an impact in the decision, the monetary reperations, etc? Don't know...but if that is the case and is brought before the UK judgement, it might mean substantially less damages than fighting out a long case in the USA would have been.
I have to admit, regardless of some of the harsh commentaries that have gone back/forth, I have learned a lot from BOTH sides and personally bear no grudges in any of this. I look at all this like politics, money, or religion...just things you shouldn't talk about if you don't want to get emotional.
