Mentioned in Dispatches, S4E8 – Game Ripoffs!

Insurgent Catan? 7 Wonders meets Game of Thrones?  Aftershocks aplenty?  And how …

Insurgent Catan? 7 Wonders meets Game of Thrones?  Aftershocks aplenty?  And how is the game industry today like rock & roll in Almost Famous?

Podcast rookie Ian (Rocky Mountain Navy) joins Brant & Jim to talk about some of the intellectual property issues in wargaming (and broader tabletop gaming), inspired by the recent events with some military officers filing for a patent on a game that looks a lot like Catan.

So yes, we cover all of the above, and a few others, and here are the links to prove it!

The original article about “Insurgent Uprising”
Twitter threads talking about the game from Tom Russell and Tabletop Lawyer
Tabletop Lawyer’s analysis of the IP issues
Paxsims discussion of patenting a tabletop game
Michael Peck’s article about GEMSTONE and others

Original Wayback Machine link was here, but’s now been excluded from web.archive.org by the publisher
Here’s a useable link to read the article

And here’s the link to our guest Ian’s very active Twitter feed, as well as his blog.

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