Thursday, May 19, 2011

Raging Heroes - No More Lamassu

Raging Heroes had removed the Lamassu head from their Manticore kit:


From their announcement:
It is with our deepest regret that we have to announce that the Lamassu head is no more part of our Manticore kit We recently received an email from a Games Workshop attorney claiming that our Lamassu head was too similar to their Chaos Dwarves' Lamasu and asking us to stop selling this head. At this point in time we don’t have the time to further investigate this mater and so we've decided to currently withdraw the Lamassu head from sale, either online or in shop. We are sorry if you were planning to get one. So please note that at this point in time THERE IS NO MORE LAMASSU HEAD available with our Manticore kit.

Link: Raging Heroes

2 comments:

  1. GW is getting out of hand with this BS!

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  2. The more I think about this the more it enrages me. Lamassu is not a copyrightable term and if that term conjures similar imagery on behalf of the artist, that is no coincidence, no more that if each company decided to release a rhinoceros. Can you imagine a GW cease and desist letter asking that a company remove its rhinoceros head because it resembled theirs too much? Utter nonsense!

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