Editing ChapterHouse Studios (section)

==Result==
In October 2014 Chapterhouse shut down their website after having their assets frozen by Games Workshop.

On 14 November 2014 [https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/downloadAttach/203680.page] the case was settled between the companies. The appeals from both sides were dismissed "with prejudice" (cannot be re-litigated) in a "Joint Dismissal" (meaning they both agreed to it): The $25,000 damages sought by GW were waived and the asset freeze was lifted. Each side has to pay its own legal fees (Chapterhouse was represented pro bono, of course).

On 18 November 2014 Chapterhouse announced via Facebook that "the web store will be up and going by the end of the week and I will ship out any orders that were not disputed this week as well. Hopefully the site will be able to stay profitable and I am hoping the defence lines will sell as well as some new products as well."

Additionally, after the Chapterhouse decision, GW began renaming factions and units from their original and well-loved names to names that can be defended as trademarks in court, with the new name often being [[Fail|impossible to take seriously.]] It can be assumed that this is an attempt to prevent bits manufacturers from using words that GW is also using when naming their products. The most infamous example of this is [[Age of Sigmar]], in which ''every goddamn name'' was changed to be completely fucking stupid for this purpose, even basic fantasy terms like "[[orc]]" and "[[elf]]." (Which became [[Orruk Warclans|Orruks]] and [[High_Elves_(Warhammer_Fantasy)#In_Age_of_Sigmar|Aelves]]. It's [[AIDS]] [[Fail|all the way down from here, people.]])  

[[Transformers]] fanboys may compare this to [[Hasbro|Hasbro's]] issues with "[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blastification blastification]" and prefix/suffix abuse (otherwise known as the '[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NounVerber adjective nounverbers]' phenomenon of AoS and 40k), but the situation with the Transformers franchise is far removed from GW's. First, in several cases Hasbro has actually been forced to change a name because ''another toy company'' claimed the trademark for a classic toy before Hasbro did; this is why several toylines in the early 2000s passed by without a Bumblebee. Second, the market in which Hasbro operates is fucking bananas, with a metric shitload of toy companies competing for shelf space and the threat of bootleg toys from the Walmart bargain bin damaging your company's reputation constantly looming in the background (and God fucking help you if the bargain bin toys are the real deal, rather than bootlegs). In this environment, changing a toy's name to be a little goofy is actually a smart business move. 

By contrast, Games Workshop's position in the miniatures wargame market is [[Privateer Press|almost]] entirely unchallenged, since they own the biggest of the miniature wargames and overall have a borderline-monopoly over the market as a whole. This means they have strong claims on the names they were already using for decades, while [[Casting|bootleggers of GW miniatures]] are all using the same quality process as GW and don't give a fuck about trademarks anyway. So not only is the proliferation of nounverbers and dog Latin passed off as the High Gothic names pointless, it's also completely unnecessary even if it ''did'' work.

In the 8th Edition, Warhammer 40k has also seen the new renaming trend:
*Imperium
**Stormtroopers - ''Tempestus Scions''
**Imperial Guard - ''Astra Militarum''
**Imperial Knights - ''Questor Imperialis''
**Titan Legions - ''Titanicus Imperialis''
*Chaos
**Chaos Space Marines - ''Heretic Astartes''
**Renegade Knights - ''Questor Traitoris''
**Renegade Titans - ''Titanicus Traitoris''
*Xenos
**Eldar - ''Aeldari'' (Eldar is copyrighted bu Tolkien, they can’t use it)
**Dark Eldar - ''Drukhari''
**Tau - ''T'au''
Presumably this means we will soon be seeing [[Dark Mechanicum|Mechanicus Tenebrae]], [[Chaos Daemons|Heretic Daemons]], [[Lost and the Damned|Militarum Traitoris]], [[Orks|Oruks]], [[Eldar Corsairs|Aeldari Cursarii]], [[Harlequins|Aeldari Ridicularius]], [[Deathwatch|Xenos Venatores]], [[Grey Knights|Questor Ravus]], [[Blood Angels|Angeli ex Sanguinus]], [[Dark Angels|Angeli Tenebrae]] and <s>[[Space Wolves|Vlka Fenryka]]</s> Lupus Astra (going by the '[[Dwarfs|Duardin]]' haphazard sense of naming).