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Chooseco LLC is seeking $25 million in damages and “trademark infringement” with NETFLIX’s Bandersnatch.
Black Miror: Bandersnatch, the NETFLIX interactive movie regardless of whether it is good or not, is something to talk about since is the first MOVIE that allows you to make decisions and choose the direction that the plot will take.
It seems that NETFLIX has been trying for a long time without success to negotiate the power to use a phrase registered by Chooseco LLC «CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE» on which the Bandersnatch movie is based, but I still use it to promote it.
CHOOSECO'S DEMAND
The lawsuit filed by the small publisher on January XNUMX in the courts of Vermont, United States (which you can read yourself) dictates the following:
"This is an action for copyright infringement, unfair competition, false designation of origin and dilution resulting from the trademark..."
«4. Netflix is infringing Chooseco's valuable trademark, causing confusion, tarnishing, denigration and diluting the distinct quality of the CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE brand.»
In addition to the above, Chooseco alleges that in a scene from the movie Bandersnatch, Stefan Butler's character is reading a book and his father highlights as a negative the fact that his son is turning pages back and forth, and his father answers "No, This is a Choose Your Own Adventure book«.
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE
At the beginning of the article, highlight the fact that Bandersnatch is the first film since it is not even close to the first story, in addition to the Chooseco LLC books there are many interactive stories,
The most famous is the game of dungeons and dragons which was published in 1974, that is, at least 5-6 years before the Chooseco stories, in addition to many video games, the first one that comes to mind is that of DETROIT BECOME HUMAN which we are also talking about here, so we can say that Chooseco did not invent the wheel, but NETFLIX by appropriating content explicit and registered from another company if it causes a problem.
CHOOSECO LLC
Chooseco is a small publisher that has existed since the early 1980s which has sold 250 million copies around the world and has been translated into 38 languages. The classic choose your own adventure series contains 184 titles written by 30 different writers.
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https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5682672-ChooseAdventure.html