BurnOutBrighter
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Maybe the cops can tell us how far along FFXIV is.
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Square Enix sued by SNKPlaymore, cops raided office
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Baleoce
Member
My thorough investigation concluded that it's at patch 2.3.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
Yeah, pretty big oversight from the guy in charge of Resuke.
BurnOutBrighter
Banned
oh my bad, I meant XV.
Baleoce
Member
As ridiculous as this may sound.. I wonder if the police had to sign an NDA after they'd finished investigating SE's HQ xD
KO.
SolarPowered
Member
DangerMouse
Member
Laughing and crying at the same time lol.
This, I had no idea either lol. Sounds cool.
Reference would just be namedropping and maybe a parody image.
This manga seems to be full on reproducing images directly from SNK's games and then trying to mislead people into thinking that they have permission to do so.
Exactly. And this is problematic because the manga and anime are both commercial products. This is a bit different from the more gray area that "doujin/fanmade" stuff occupies.
damn.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
While I get the legality of scenarios like these, I've never for the life of me understood the propensity to act upon it.
It's not like SNK's brand contributed to the popularity of the manga.
If anything, SNK games being seen in the manga would boost THEIR popularity. Basically free advertising.
Isn't it almost like the Fox complaining that an image of Homer Simpson was used in Apples latest MacBook Air ad? So? Apple is the biggest brand in the works right now, you should be HAPPY your IP is getting such a level of exposure.
Or am I missing something? Again, remembering I said I fully get the legality of the situation.
It's not like SNK's brand contributed to the popularity of the manga.
If anything, SNK games being seen in the manga would boost THEIR popularity. Basically free advertising.
Isn't it almost like the Fox complaining that an image of Homer Simpson was used in Apples latest MacBook Air ad? So? Apple is the biggest brand in the works right now, you should be HAPPY your IP is getting such a level of exposure.
Or am I missing something? Again, remembering I said I fully get the legality of the situation.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
"No! Come back, we have 12 seconds of new footage on this trailer! It's really good, officer, I swear!"
It really is great exposure for a niche product like The Simpsons.
The nature of copyright is that you have to act on known infringements or you risk losing your rights. That's how the law works. So if you get the legality of it, you also get why it has to be acted on.
That's really dumb of Squeenix, it's hilarious the way they found out about it. Surely it will work itself out.
Perfect Cha0s
Member
LOL!
Snkfanatic
Banned
Man this thread lol
It's gold, pure gold.
It's gold, pure gold.
Disaster Nebraska
Banned
slain in the spirit
Hopefully the most vocal hater of it was.
Not even the NSA can read the lazy, ignorant mind of Nomura.
LiegeWaffle
Member
That's trademark law, not copyright. And while people who report such kind of incidents sometimes confuse one for another, I am pretty sure in this case it was copyright infringement, because I have never heard of trademark infringement being a part of criminal law.
Didn't SNK let Square Enix use some characters for one of their Lord of Vermillion games?
Huh? They wouldn't be at Square Enix silly! (or who knows, maybe there was some staff that wasn't on board with it)
Huh? They wouldn't be at Square Enix silly! (or who knows, maybe there was some staff that wasn't on board with it)
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
Needed the laugh.
GekigangerV
Member
I updated the info in the OP to more accurately reflect the nature of the ongoing ordeal. Please not it is a criminal lawsuit.
Almost a year of no action? Maybe they wanted for the manga to have more infractions before they wanted to pull the trigger D:
Probably still within the statute of limitations though, otherwise I don't think the cops would have did the raid.
On the topic of the raid, I'm mentally picturing an all out police raid in Square Enix's office...
Probably still within the statute of limitations though, otherwise I don't think the cops would have did the raid.
On the topic of the raid, I'm mentally picturing an all out police raid in Square Enix's office...
Gawd damn, that's funny.
lol amazing gif.
SparksterMeta0
Member
GekigangerV
Member
K9999 was trending in Japan a couple of minutes ago in relation to SNKPlaymore's action against SquareEnix
For those of you not in the know, K9999 was a character created during the Eolith days of SNK who was a pretty blatant rip off of Tetsuo from Akira. They even had the same voice actor.
When SNK re-released KOF2002 they changed the character to "Nameless" and gave him an all black color scheme.
For those of you not in the know, K9999 was a character created during the Eolith days of SNK who was a pretty blatant rip off of Tetsuo from Akira. They even had the same voice actor.
When SNK re-released KOF2002 they changed the character to "Nameless" and gave him an all black color scheme.
The Genshiken manga used fictionalized alternatives, and so did the anime, although different anime series had deals to legitimaly depict Guilty Gear of KoF XI (for part of the opening or brief footage in some episodes) depending on the season.
They were prepared.
I hope this doesn't mess with the manga though. Read it a while back and thought it was really charming stuff, nerdery aside.
thesolidshark
Member
While it's sad seeing two companies I like in dispute...
I appreciate the good laugh the news gives us.
They were prepared.
I appreciate the good laugh the news gives us.
andrerobot
Member
that's gold!
Have to remember at the time SNK basically didn't exist, and it was the parent company that contracted Eolith to make the game with K9999 in it. The people currently running SNKPlaymore had nothing to do with it.