Do you have an example of a piece of intellectual property that was blatantly copied?
Why wouldn’t they? I’m all for the fuck Sony train when they fuck up (like when they pushed PSN onto PC users and then blocked the sale of their games in countries that aren’t supported by PSN) but in this case Tencent is/was blatantly copying the Horizon IP.
ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
It’s not copying it, it’s ripping it off, which isn’t illegal. Sony is trying to claim that it being a ripoff means customers would be confused into believing it’s actually a Horizon game and purchasing it in error, which is stupid.
If they had called this Horizons: Motiram, they’d be 100% in the right. But they are just trying to essentially claim they own the combination of style and theme of “colorful world with tribal humans vs robot animals”. That’s not how trademark works.l (this is trademark btw, not copyright, just in case anyone is getting them mixed up).
Goodeye8@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
You’re going to tell me people won’t think this is Horizon?
Light of Motiram
That’s an image from the official reveal trailer.
Yupa@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Wait wtf? I thought it was just an exaggeration! I get why Sony is mad now.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
They won’t mistakenly buy the game based on that image, which is the standard for trademark violations.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That was a random image from the trailer. You can stop the trailer at a random point and there’s like 90% chance you’re going to end up with an image that could easily be from the Horizon series. It’s also worth pointing out that the trailer has been removed from all official Lights of Motiram accounts along with a dozen images that looked like they were from the Horizon series.
I will also remind you that you said it would be absurd to take Sony seriously, which is not the same thing as stating “there’s no trademark violations here”. The latter is literally what the court has to make a decision on. The former is about whether there’s any basis to go to court which already means you think you know better than Sony lawyers and, if the court doesn’t instantly throw out the case, also better than the legal system. Maybe you are some godlike lawyer who knows better than everyone else, but if you are I think you can understand why I’m calling bullshit on that.