[GF_Mastiff]

Originally Posted by Rama

What things?
It won't help you to open your eyes and your ears when there's nothing to see or to hear.

Nobody knows what exactly happened, and everybody's speaking in the vacuum

this is what happened.

The "door opening" factor was the failure to properly mark the Grumman name on the package art (I have it here in my lap). That's open and shut, and in fact, the companies in question are required to defend their marks for fear of precedent that it is open for use. Ubi was over a barrel at that point, and the negotiators decided to ask for fees as precedent. Now they can claim that companies have been forced to pay for images of their products that would otherwise be "fair use." That's my guess, anyway.

the fair use is now gone, since they paid out and made it precedent.