Reply To: GW Takes Ghamak To Court!

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I stopped buying GW products a few years ago.  I hadn’t really been buying miniatures from them for a while,  just paints. But I have fully switched to army painter now.  I made the switch to Army Painter precisely because I no longer wished to hand money over to a company that behaves the way GW behaves.

I can’t really sit here and defend Ghamak though – he sailing very close to the wind with a lot of his designs.  Which is why it is so surprising that GW have launched a lawsuit claiming “unfair competition” rather than copyright infringement, assuming that is indeed what they have done.  Looking at his models, I think they might have a point if they went with copyright infringement.  But claiming unfair competition seems like they’re on a hiding to nothing given that you could use chess pieces for 40k if you really wanted to.  If they win such a case it could have serious ramifications for the entire industry.  So if I can see evidence that he is being sued for unfair competition,  I may consider chipping in.  I need to see a bit more information though because this seems a bit too dumb to be true.