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> It only seems absurd becaus you don't realize that it's only the exclusive right to use those words in a commercial context to describe a product or service i
by darkarmani 14y ago
> It only seems absurd becaus you don't realize that it's only the exclusive right to use those words in a commercial context to describe a product or service in a specific field.
Actually it seems absurd because it is over-broad: "but also extended to published works."
Are they going to try and pull the 1959 book Starship Troopers for trademark infringement?
- xsmasher 14y agoDoesn't Starship Troopers use the term "Mobile Infantry?" This is about the term "Space Marine" not the concept of marines in space.
- cygx 14y agoThe literal term 'Space Marine' is not as common as I thought, which isn't really that surpsising because if virtually all your marines operate in space, do you really need to add it to their name? However, I do believe that space marine is the most common generic term to refer to soldiers-in-space ooc (ie when discussing the archetype and not specific implementations like Heinlein's 'Mobile Infantry' - keep in mind there are actual space marines in some of his other stories, Alien's 'Colonial Marines' or Starcraft's 'Confederate Marines').
- darkarmani 14y agoYou're right. His earlier books used it though. The concept of space marines is a cliche in games and scify space books though.
- bunderbunder 14y agoNo, because Starship Troopers didn't call its characters "space marines." It called them "mobile infantry."
- cygx 14y agoBut they are in Misfit, The Long Watch and Space Cadet.
- milesskorpen 14y agoOther people were using the term though. http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Space+Marine&year_start=1950&year_end=2013&corpus=15&smoothing=3 http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Space+Marine...
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