{"id":30813,"date":"2026-06-20T21:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/?p=30813"},"modified":"2026-06-20T21:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:59:09","slug":"ea-extends-ultima-trademark-as-creator-prepares-for-copyright-reclamation-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/?p=30813","title":{"rendered":"EA Extends Ultima Trademark as Creator Prepares for Copyright Reclamation Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been some time since a fresh Ultima has emerged! Nearly eight years, to be precise, and it didn&#8217;t even bear the Ultima name (it was Underworld Ascendant, which we didn&#8217;t review back in the day). This is true for many franchises that are over 40 years old; they simply lack the momentum they once had. However, earlier this week, it seemed that EA (who have held the rights to the series for a long time) submitted a couple of new trademarks for Ultima. Subsequently, it appears that the creator of the series, Richard &#8220;Lord British&#8221; Garriot, is attempting to reclaim the copyright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been some time since a fresh Ultima has emerged! Nearly eight years, to be precise, and it didn&#8217;t even bear the Ultima name (it was Underworld Ascendant, which we didn&#8217;t review back in the day). This is true for many franchises that are over 40 years old; they simply lack the momentum they once had. However, earlier this week, it seemed that EA (who have held the rights to the series for a long time) submitted a couple of new trademarks for Ultima. Subsequently, it appears that the creator of the series, Richard &#8220;Lord British&#8221; Garriot, is attempting to reclaim the copyright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/havefunesports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}