The Spoony Hou
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Well, I love SNK, hate most of S-E, so I hope SNK wins this, even if I think they went a bit overboard.
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Millionaires Fighting: Square Enix sues SNK Playmore
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As much as I'd like to see SNK handle a fighting game with all the Final Fantasy monk characters, I really don't see this happening.
Heck, if SE acknowledge SNK enough to consider buying them, they'd have done a better job of getting in touch about the manga depiction...
TheBaronOfNA
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orthodoxy1095
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So the person I asked earlier doesn't seem to know, so can someone else explain:is the declaratory judgment request a request on ruling of the jurisdiction of the court proceedings or a ruling on the actual copyright infringement?
Killer Yakuza B
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Please don't be in a position of power ever. It's best if you don't make any important decisions either, just to be safe.
Leafhopper
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Based Colin.
Since SE is using Taito for FF monk characters so much you mean?
You're the one mentioning acquisitions, what SE fails to do about them and the strengths they could have assimilated is a topic I'm not that well versed in - I know they got Eidos and that's still making Tomb Raider games.
An SE game has used SNK characters before though: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Lord_of_Vermilion_II
The Spoony Hou
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I wish SNK hadn't done this, but I love their games and if they lose I'm afraid they'll be done for, they are a very poor company. So that's just my fanboy self wishing they stay afloat. If I had a say in SNK, I'd have tried an arrangement before purpusuing legal means.
Of course, I don't know why I bothered replying to your post. I guess I thought I should make it clear.
orthodoxy1095
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Well SNK filed the lawsuit against them. It's not like they can just roll over without a fight, especially after that criminal accusation and police raid.
I mentioned the acquisition of SNKP by SE as a possibly cheaper way to end the legal fights than going through the whole legalese or settling out of court. Instantly putting SNKP into SE's huge vault of forgotten IPs and developers afterward. I don't know how you took that as a hint to start rambling about what both sides could possibly do in a fan's dream.
The same as with all other clear copyright infringement cases?
thesolidshark
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I had no reason to wish anything ill on Kagari, until now.
completely kidding
sublimit
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Well SNK had all the rights to file a lawsuit against them since they blatantly used their characters and all but what's SE's excuse of the lawsuit against SNK? "Hey you filed a lawsuit against us so now we're going to teach you to not mess with us and we'll just file a lawsuit against you just because you filed a lawsuit against us."
It's ridiculous.
I'm not too familiar with the kinds of costs involved in such a legal process,but somehow it doesn't seem likely it would quite match the value of the entire plaintiff company - which has a bit of a history of acquisitions going bad, looking back at the Aruze situation over a decade ago.
I just don't quite see SNKP "surrendering" like that considering how they've acted so far.
And yeah, I guess a post or two drifted into fantasy crossover territory, but somehow that still seemed more on-topic than the frequent CvS2 announcer references so far...
Dreamgazer
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Damages will increase as the clock run down due to the time value of money.
Brilliant!
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