Children's Television Workshop Sues id Software NEW YORK, NY (Jeff Miller) - The Children's Television Workshop, best known as the producer of Sesame Street, has filed suit against id Software for over five million dollars in unpaid underwriting fees, apparently as an unexpected result of id's increased efforts on the Internet to protect their copyright of the stylized "Q". ![]() "According to our accountants' calculations, id owes us approximately five million dollars in underwriting fees for promotion of their product, plus interest. After all, we've been advertising Quake to children of a very impressionable age for over twenty years. Considering that the vast majority of Quake's target market was virtually raised by television, we feel that we are responsible, to a large degree, for the current success of the game. We promoted Quake before Quake was cool." ![]() Evidently, there is some division within the Sesame Street ranks concerning the legal action against id. Two actors, who wish to be identified only as 'B' and 'E', had this to say on the matter: "Look, we get paid little more than minimum wage to sing songs about ducks and sport bad haircuts on national television. After a long day filming this sickly sweet crap, all we want to do is gib the hell out of everyone. If Children's Television Workshop brings Quake to a halt, we're bringing a rocket launcher on the set." |
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