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10-14-2009, 11:11 PM
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I think the problem was with the packaging of the game...Grumman wasn't upset with the content of the game, but they where upset that the Grumman name and the likeness of the famous aeroplanes where used in advertising and packaging without permission...
This is the information I remember from the "Blue Ubi" around the time of the problem... 
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10-15-2009, 12:22 AM
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By the same logic, anyone writing a history book, novel, or producing a movie based around a historical time period should have to pay Grumman to be historically accurate?
Some serious time limits need to be placed IP rights. Seriously, should Ford demand a fee for the Model-T being on the ground in a WWI flight game? Should gun manufactures sue the pants of makers of WWII fps games for including accurate weapons of the time period they happened to make? Maybe everybody should jump on the Grumman bandwagon and demand money for whatever reason....... "You owe us big time money for using our grandpappy associated with a plane paint scheme he used in WWII!" "You owe us money for showing company "X"'s type of bomb as a loadout option on the P-38, also we made the tires on the P-51, replace them with doughnuts or give us money!" "You owe us money for putting a half naked lady on that famous B-17 bomber, my grandma was the lady who actually posed for that picture and if we can't get paid for her being half naked - we have to stop calling her an old whore!" I think I'll go figure out if I can trace my ancestors back to the cave-dweller who invented the wheel - I see a huge money maker.
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10-15-2009, 12:58 AM
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This can stir up a lot quick as it has in the past. To the OP when/if you do any search you'll come up with a lot of threads discussing the issue. Most of them are over at the ubizoo. Everyone has their take about who said what, when and how and some know more than others but more than likely the unknown truth lies somewhere in the middle. FS 9 and FSX have had grumman a/c modeled since for free and I believe paid addon but don't know if the modders had to do anything. At this point its all water under the bridge and mods it might be best to end this thread before it gets heated again.
Flyingbullseye Last edited by flyingbullseye; 10-15-2009 at 01:00 AM.
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10-15-2009, 02:00 AM
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I kind of remember reading something like that as well. Nothing like passing the buck then leaving the guy high and dry. Talk about a royal screw job. If actually true can't blame Oleg for parting ways with UBI.
Flyingbullseye
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