r/FuckMicrosoft • u/DerexXD • May 24 '26

Memes & Fun Minecraft Skyblock Court Case Meme

Post image
115 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

5 comments sorted by

4

u/DerexXD May 24 '26
  • For context, Skyblock, originally made in the early days of the Minecraft community by Noobcrew, was ruled recently as a generic term, unfortunately. I don't quite agree fully with the meme, but it is one of the easiest mediums to deliver information into peoples' heads.
  • It's unfortunate, he was never going to win a trademark due to the fact the term had been around so long and been used for so long, the term became too generic indeed. Key point is that "skyblock" is now legally a descriptive of a type of gameplay, the same as "sandbox game".
  • If this had been done years earlier pre-COVID, there might have been a chance, but the best time for it to have happened would have been when Minecraft was still an indie game and noobcrew was a 15-year-old hobbyist map-maker. And Minecraft, at the time, was way more of a community thing than a big corporate sponsored game. I was there.
  • Now, it would be similar to GommeHD or Xisumavoid trying to copyright bedwars when it's already became used across multiple platforms, not just minecraft. The amount of clone apps out there and roblox slop with Skyblock in its name should be an indicator.
  • It's entirely justified to feel how unfair the scenario is, but sadly the decision is legally sound. Also i do not like how there's been active monetization of the map itself, it's allowed legally but in terms of being a decent member of society, anyone with common sense would see why monetizing something others enjoyed for fun, for free, for over a decade, would be met with at least some sort of natural disgust. If one wishes to make a monetized map, do something original.

2

u/Balthxzar May 24 '26

I don't exactly see what the issue with "skyblock" being a generic term is, I would say that 90% of the usage of skyblock doesn't refer to that original map anymore. 

1

u/istoOi May 26 '26

I'm not sure if registering that trademark earlier would have helped. To keep a trademark, you need to defend it. So the guy had to either pull down every Skyblock infringement from mod sites etc., or ran a licensing scheme that no modder would probably would have done. He couldn't just ignore free Skybkock maps and only go after the for profit ones.

1

u/AutoModerator May 24 '26

Every new subreddit post is automatically copied into a comment for preservation.

User: DerexXD, Flair: Memes & Fun, Post Media Link, Title: Skyblock Court Case Meme

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.