Sony Interactive Entertainment has filed a lawsuit against Tencent over its upcoming game Light of Motiram, with Sony saying it is a "slavish clone" of the Horizon series.

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Do they have a case? As long as Tencent isn't actively copying Horizon beyond an aesthetic, are they infringing on anything?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year 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.

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