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Sony accuses Tencent of playing a 'shell game' with its Horizon-like survival game, seeks a preliminary injunction against it (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 month ago by ryujin470@fedia.io to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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Tencent seems ready to make big changes to Light of Motiram, but Sony isn't buying it.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This one is pretty clear. Tencent is saying that Sony is trying to copyright an entire genre, like sci fi.

In reality it's more like if Sony made Star wars, and tencent made the star of death with the jidoos with lasersabres. Tencent is just trying to say "how dare you trying to copyright sci fi!"

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's not copyright, it's trademark. Sony isn't claiming they're the same characters, they're claiming that the style is so similar that people would mistakenly believe that Light of Motiram is actually a Horizon game, which is why this case is so stupid; it is a blatant ripoff, but ripoffs aren't illegal, and no one is going to actually mix them up.