MTG (Magic The Gathering)

[silvershade]

I play occaisonally play a card game called Magic the Gathering.

Kinda makes you wonder if the team creating Planeshift also play Magic the Gathering because there is a card set called Planeshift.

Hmmmm I wonder
Could it be that is there favorite card set from the game and paying tribute to it or is it just pure conincidence

The world may never know,

[seperot]

actualy we already do know planeshift the game was around before the mtg version im sure its in a thread somewhere around here

[_Atticus]

I\'m not sure if planeshift was before MTG since MTG has been around forever, but here is an interesting article about that:

http://www.noapologiespress.com/newnews/mtg.html

[seperot]

not befor mtg itsself just the planeshift ver (or whatever you call it) cause if im not mistaken it was 1992 that the devs of planeshift came together........did i get that right? im not sure but i know it was a looong time ago

[Xalthar]

well if the PS devs decided on making the game waaaaaay back in 1992 they are one year older than MTG... since that game was founded in 1993.. (if I\'m not mistaken )

[Drilixer]

Originally posted by Xalthar
well if the PS devs decided on making the game waaaaaay back in 1992 they are one year older than MTG... since that game was founded in 1993.. (if I\'m not mistaken )

yeap people have posted about copyright infringements alot of times - and the moderators have said that Planeshift predates all those that I have seen mentioned...

I would love to get my hands on those old old versions though...

[silvershade]

Xaithar you are correct MTG did start back in 1993

[AendarCallenlasse]

Well it doesn\'t matter who was around first, it has to do with who got the copyright first.  Which I am guessing would be MTG.

[Drilixer]

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Originally posted by AendarCallenlasse
Well it doesn\'t matter who was around first, it has to do with who got the copyright first.  Which I am guessing would be MTG.
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actually check out this thread: http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=4765&boardid=13&sid=81d5fcdb5328081a5458dc49ba7d0452

and this quote by Vengeance:
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Originally posted by Vengeance
Prior use always takes precedence over registration.

Windows isn\'t a valid trademark either. There was a major lawsuit just resolved recently over the clone product called \"Lindows\" and the court ruled against Microsoft saying they shouldn\'t have used a standard english word if they wanted to protect it.

- Venge
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And this post by TALAD!!!

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Originally Slammed Down by Talad
Hi,
the PlaneShift Team is not made by inexperienced people and we always take into serious account the legal part of our project. This means that we already discussed and resolved long time ago that kind of problems and several others.

The name PlaneShift is currently used by more than one company and more than one product, including us. With the difference that we have used it long way before the others. In most countries the commercial usage of a name is what matter most and so we have to move from 1992 (when I\'ve placed some web pages about PlaneShift 2D on the web) to 1996, when I\'ve partecipated to a roadshow of the 2d version of PlaneShift for it\'s commercial usage. The roadshow was part of a big convention and we have all the documentation needed to prove that.

So we have a solid base to use that name. The only usage done before that date (1996) is an AD&D spell named Plane Shift (Player\'s Handbook, 5th level priests), but in that case \"Plane\" and \"Shift\" are really two separate english words and not a single name. Also a spell doesn\'t represent a branding of any sort.

Hope this clears up the issue.
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is that sufficient

[silvershade]

wow this thread wasnt meant to stir up legal issues
it was supposed to be a thread for fun

hehehehe

[seperot]

thats the thread i was talking about  

nice one drilixer  

[Xalthar]

well as long as the copyright by the other companies doesn\'t concern MMORPG\'s the devs are allowed to keep the name.. a lot of people can use the same name, albeit for different products...

[silvershade]

thats very cool

[dorbian]

Well i do know that mtg is older since the creaters started making the game when they where in colege about 20 years ago but they can\'t blame these dev\'s toi use the name planeshift since they didn\'t came up with it either they only used it for a card deck and i do believe they have looked over al these things otherwise they wouldn\'t name the game like this and have such a big privacy policy like they have in here !