Can Trademark Law Stop a Racist Video Game?
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on September 16, 2022
An otherwise mundane motion for an injunction filed last week in a Seattle federal court opens with this startling sentence: “Defendants’ to-be-released Star Frontiers New Genesis game contains despicable content including blatantly racist and transphobic content.” The kicker is that the litigation concerns not discrimination but trademark infringement.
Even among those of us who’ve . . .
