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Look, I'm not claiming much knowledge about how laws work, but I don't think the video game companies would be able to do anything now because it's gone on for so long.

With my limited knowledge of law one of the few things I kind of know about is copyright law thanks for being a huge fan of pro wrestling for so long. Pro wrestlers have their real name of course, and they have their in ring game. The WWE and these workers have constantly battled over the rights to names forever, what does the WWE own and what do the workers own? I'm not going to break that down here for you, but I wanted to bring this up for one point - The WWE HAS to press claims on these gimmicks and names when there is a reason to.

For example, let's say a local indie show wants to do a Hell In The Cell match, a match type that is copy-written by the WWE. Now this local indie show might only make $2,000 at the gate for this show, and it isn't going to harm the WWE at all, so why would they press their claim and stop it? It's not that their being jerks, it's because they HAVE to protect their IP, if they don't then. . .I'm not sure how to phrase this next part. If they allow 1 company to use it with out legal permission, then in the eyes of the court they don't really care about the IP and they will allow others to use it as well.

Something like that. Like I said, I don't really know, it's just that this sort happens in pro wrestling and I read about it. But it could be the same here, their not protecting their IP, so in the eyes of the law, they don't really care about it and they will not have much of a leg to stand on if they try to make it an issue.

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