The Elder Scrolls "The Elder Scrolls" to 47.5% for "Grand Theft Auto". In August 2011, Bethesda Softworks contacted the developer of "Minecraft", Mojang, claiming that the intended trademark of the title "Scrolls" for its new game breached Bethesda's trademark on "The Elder Scrolls". On March 10, 2012, Markus Persson tweeted that the two had come to an agreement over the use of the name. The agreement prohibits Mojang from using the title "Scrolls" in any future sequels of the game. The Elder Scrolls The Elder Scrolls is a series of action role-playing open world fantasy video games primarily developed by Bethesda Game Studios
Minecraft apparently taking full ownership of the CraftBukkit modification, although the validity of this claim was questioned due to its status as an open-source project with many contributors, licensed under the GNU General Public License and Lesser General Public License. On 15 September 2014, Microsoft announced a $2.5 billion deal to buy Mojang, along with the ownership of the "Minecraft" intellectual property. The deal was suggested by Persson when he posted a tweet asking a corporation to buy his share of the game after receiving criticism for "trying to do the right thing". It was completed on 6 November 2014, and