Heroes of Newerth Lawsuit?

So there has been many things floating around the internet claiming that HoN is being sued by blizzard for copyrights.

The big claim is that the custom created maps on Warcraft 3 (WC3) are the property of WC3.  Every player had to agree to TOS before playing the game, therefore DotA is the property of blizzard.

The biggest counter argument however is that "blizzard does not own the concept of DotA, or the concept of RTS, MMO, or action RPG" (Ashigaru 2009).

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Heroes of Newerth

Heroes of Newerth (sounds like New Earth) is a new game based off of the popular game in Warcraft III -- DotA.
The creators of DotA created this game separate from Warcraft III and is currently in beta testing. They gave out free beta keys on facebook for everyone who fan'd them. They are currently out of beta keys, but HON released some beta keys to certain sites like http://www.alienwarearena.com/event/hon-beta-giveaway/
Here is the link to their intro video to the game via facebook. Hope you enjoy.
http://honwiki.net/ for more info.

Edit: 8/17/09 @ 8:38 AM "Heores of Newerth:

Sometime in the next 10 days, we won't say when, we will send out a fan update with 75,000 keys to the beta. The keys will only be available for 12-24 hours and you'll have to regularly check your Heroes of Newerth fan updates. Also, the ...2nd tutorial video in our tutorial series is coming shortly."

Edit: 8/24/09 @ 6:42 PM "Heroes of Newerth

We just added 2 new heroes to the game, Wretched Hag & Succubis. Everyone should soon get a chance to play them as well as almost 50 total heroes very soon. We're getting really close to sending out those 75,000 invites, so make sure you b...ecome a fan and get the update the moment we send it."