Reply To: GW legal threat forces War Banner into a name change

[phaidknott 7023xp 2]

Personally I think Andy should have changed the name to “War Hamster” (if he had the money to throw away). Purely so he could frame the legal letter from GW on the second attempt on the office wall.

I still liked Footsore as a name, perhaps they should have reverted to that (although War Banner was supposed to encompass all the different product lines, not just the Footsore range that initially formed the core of the business). It’s that now Andy and co have to spend a lot of money on the rebrand, redoing all the packaging et etc (not just the legal cost of changing the company name).

I DO however still have this naïve concept that companies shouldn’t be able to claim words in the English Dictionary as theirs. War Banner was used far, far long before it ever featured in a GW publication (as did the word Warhammer). A company logo is usually a mixture of the word, colours used and font etc (this is them copyrighted). Alas these days it seems we can’t even have the English language as “open source”. I wonder if we’ll need to change the name of the hobby from “War Gaming” to “Miniature Gaming” at some point in the future 😀

Still I wonder if “War Hamster” is available, Anne?