Comment on Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike
scutiger@lemmy.world 1 day agoThe key is whether or not someone would confuse one franchise for another based on the aesthetics. People were losing their minds over Palworld being a ripoff of Pokemon when it first released.
I could see it going either way. IP law is a mess.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
There is the additional case that apparently $0.10 wants to licence the IP. (Autocorrect has just changed the name to a price, and I’m inclined to leave it because it’s funny)
It sounds like what happened here is they developed the game and then approached Sony for the licence assuming they were going to get it (which is a bizarre thing to do because Sony were never going to give them a licence, anyone who knows anything about how Sony operate knows that)
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Not sure I care about who will win that one, but if Sony can prove
tenc$0.10 actually came to them to get a Horizon licence, only to release “can’t believe it’s not Horizon” shortly after not getting it, that would be quite the smoking gun.It’s basically a proof that looking as similar as possible was their intention all along.