Cyberpunk TRADEMARKED! Has CD Projekt RED Gone Too Far?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bethke < He might have some words for them. Said that before Ashley mentioned it in the video... If anyone is watching this and is interested, try out his novel Headcrash.

"Final Fantasy" is copyrighted. I don't get why this is a big deal. As long as it's part of the name of a game, it makes sense to trademark it. And since the series is called "Cyberpunk" they are within their rights to file for ownership of it. Wasn't expecting Anthony Carboni in this episode. Haven't seen him since the Rev3 days (sorry man, just more interested in gaming news)

WHO IS THIS MAN PLEASE KEEP HIM HERE

I like this new guy. Not only do we share the same first name but he definitely seems to know his stuff. He did cut off ashley a bit which got a bit annoying but i just chalk it up to enthusiasm. So yes please more of him. 

Good to see Anthony.  

I think trademarking Cyberpunk is too much.  Since like they said has it describing its own genre in gaming.

I think I understand the difference between patent, trademark and copyright from Ashley explaining it in these videos.  Thank you Ashley :)

CD Projekt RED can do anything they want, leave them alone to work their creative genius!

CD Projekt Red do you're thing. They are protecting their new masterpiece (hopefully), leave them be lol.

I honestly don't see a problem. It's just for the title. I seriously doubt they'll risk burning up the good will they've built with fans by misusing a trademark.

Does EA have a trademark on Battlefield? That's a pretty common word but I've never heard complaints about that.

Are we sure that the trademark is just for that word or is it supposed to be the whole title, cyberpunk 2077?  That makes the difference I think, King getting a TM for there titles and not the individual words would be fine but going after the words is not right.  I do get that the devs wouldn't want another game coming out called cyberpunk 2078 though.  This is a tricky one.

while I'm grumpy about this I understand why they have to try unlike king.

It is tiresome that people seem to keep being allowed to trademark and copyright common English words... there used to be a blanket ban of doing that (which is why a lot of products started using soundalike names that were copyrightable and trademarkable) and that totally makes sense since by limiting the use of those words you limit the potential to simply describe what your product is - this is crazy; trademarking a word like cyberpunk would make a name like "Veritas: a Cyberpunk Story" a potential trade violation and something poor indie devs would have to avoid for fear of being pulled into a trademark dispute... whether the dispute is spurious or not is irrelevant, the describing of a product using the English language should never put one at risk of being pulled into a dispute whether legitimate or not, most people can't afford the lawyer fees for dealing with that and so the chilling effect becomes real and what you are chilling here is something about as public domain as could possibly be - a _language_.

P.S. I understand that if it is a significant problem that people will adopt a new word to mean much the same as the old one but that's how English became so stupidly replete with an overabundance of words in the first place... we have enough of that problem as it is without companies artificially contributing to it to satiate a small amount of short term greed.