Editing Games Workshop (section)

==''Spots the Space Marine'' trademark complaint==
Games Workshop issued a trademark complaint against retailer [[Amazon.com|Amazon]], specifically relating to the novel ''Spots the Space Marine'', claiming it violated their European 'space marine' trademark.<ref>{{cite news|last=Barnett|first=David|title=Superheroes, space marines and lawyers get into trademark fight|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/07/superheroes-space-marines-lawyers-copyright|access-date=8 February 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|date=7 February 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Row blows up over ownership of 'space marine' term |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21380003|access-date=19 August 2013|website=bbc.co.uk| publisher= [[BBC]]|date=8 February 2013}}</ref> Commentators such as [[Cory Doctorow]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://boingboing.net/2013/02/06/games-workshop-trademark-bully.html|date=6 February 2013|title=Games Workshop trademark bullying goes thermonuclear: now they say you can't use "space marine" in science fiction|author=Cory Doctorow|access-date=11 February 2013}}
</ref> and digital rights group the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/02/trademark-bully-thwarted-spots-space-marine-back-online|date=8 February 2013|title=Trademark Bully Thwarted: Spots the Space Marine Back Online|author=Corynne McSherry|access-date=11 February 2013|work=EFF}}</ref> questioned the right of Games Workshop to trademark the term.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/08/games-workshop-space-marines_n_2646001.html|date=8 February 2013|title=Games Workshop Space Marine Trademark Battle Erupts As Sci-Fi Fans Point To History |work=Huffington Post UK|access-date=11 February 2013}}</ref> On 8 February 2013, Spots the Space Marine reappeared on Amazon. Games Workshop has issued no further legal action.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hogarth|first=MCA|title=The Return of Spots the Space Marine|url=http://mcahogarth.org/?p=10661|work=MCAH Online|access-date=16 February 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130214012925/http://mcahogarth.org/?p=10661|archive-date=14 February 2013}}</ref>