Squenix wins copyright suit Comments by Games Industry.biz
Music vid plagiarised FF.
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ShieldOfFaith
11/12/07 @ 10:40
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80% eh. Every FPS uses 99% of somebody elses work yet are allowed to be sold on a daily basis. Actually when you think about it, every game is just a rip off of another game. Developers have no choice as they've run out of new ideas since originality died over a decade ago.
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GamesConnoisseur
11/12/07 @ 10:48
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Same old arguments, there are only seven kind of stories, and everything is reinventions of any or some of those.
Orginiality is how you differ from the mass, having unseen features to date, or new way of using the old feature. If you think all the game is 100 percent the same or just a clone of the previous similar game, then there is no purpose at all to get Super Mario Galaxy, The Portal (of The Orange Box) or Drake's Fortune! |
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Noctilucent
11/12/07 @ 11:02
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Good thing you posted this here, too, because I can comment on two mistakes I found, which I could not do on gamesindustry.biz
1. Advent Children is not a videogame, it is a movie. 2. Final Fantasy turned 20 this year. I wouldn't expect such mistakes on a high-profile gaming site such as yours. Doesn't anybody check things for accuracy? |
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HyperShadow
11/12/07 @ 11:05
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But the video copies a heck of a lot of Advent Children, the church fight scene iirc, and when its copied to such exact details, thats when it gets wrong.
It wasn't like Advent Children, it WAS Advent Children. I side with Squeenix on this one. |
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I think people will miss the point of this. they have to do things like this regularly to ensure that courts continue to note that they are actively enforcing their IP/Trademarks.
Yeah this might not be a big deal really, but if they let things like this slide then when a serious case goes to court defendants can use un-enforced infringement to argue that Squeenix hasn't been active in the past and therefore have less of a case now.
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"Link to video?"
Go to Youtube and search "Ivy - Temptation of Sonata" Is a brilliant video though they really should have asked permission from Square I'm they would have given it gladly as it expands awareness of their product. But as mentioned above you have to keep on top of your IP if you start letting people get away with using it with out your concent then it becomes diluted and hard to keep hold of. |
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kingdumpalot
11/12/07 @ 12:39
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10 year history? We're arbitrarily ignoring the first six games then?
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ShieldofFaith, you have no idea what this copyright suit is about. There is a more than subtle difference between using similair ideas and actually copying frame for frame. If I copied and pasted Halo and called it Gaylo, that's copyright theft. If I made a whole new game with aliens and pink space ships and jeeps and a main character clad in green battle armor, that's me using the same ideas as Halo - but not actually copyright theft. You can't copyright general premises and themes.
Of course, I do realize you were using this case as a platform for your tired anti-FPS soapbox bullshit. Just try a little harder next time eh, chap? |
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