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The Upper Deck Company recently announced that it has settled the lawsuit brought against it by Major League Baseball. The settlement allows Upper Deck to continue selling baseball cards as long as it doesn’t put team team names or logos on new cards. This, however, is apparently not enough to forestall major changes at the company. ICv2 reports that Upper Deck has instituted significant layoffs, primarily in the entertainment division. Upper Deck explained that the changes are part of a reorganization intended to make the company “more efficient and better positioned going forward.”
After all these events, though, I wonder what impact this might have on Upper Deck’s Marvel trading card and CCG products.
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Split right down the middle. While I don’t think companies should be ripped off by third party copies (which is not the case here), to go completely the other way is wrong..
I think unless there is money being made out of the ‘copy’ then it should not be an offence anyway (or very limited fine) and even if its a commercial product I think the affected company should only be entitled to a partial percentage of net profits..