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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 1110210" data-attributes="member: 8704">Well were the vampire clans fighting werewolf tribes in Blade? The point here wasn't to point out the clan thing but to point out that we don't have one single actual clue as to what all these claimed points of copyright infringement are, we can speculate all we like but for all we know the points of infringement could be from extremely vague to obviously blatent. We just don't have any information except a three paragraph press release from White Wolf. A lot of people have condemned them as launching a frivolous suit here without actually knowing what the suit is about, we just don't know if it's frivolous or not and won't know until we can see the movie or the actual lawsuit papers.  As far as why now, well that's been talked about in the other thread on the topic (getting harder to keep track of who said what where). For us to make a judgement on the "why now?" question we would have to know when White Wolf first found out there might be infringement, then they would have to review the material with a lawyer (did Sony send them the script on request or allow them to screen the movie?) and prepare a detailed lawsuit. If they just caught on when the first TV commercials started airing then this is a pretty quick turnaround to get the suit out there. It's obvious they had to of reviewed the movie in some manner if they have "17 counts of copyright infringement" and "over 60 points of unique similarity", that's not just saying "hey they got vampires fighting werewolfs, lets sue" that's a detailed list that could only of been made after reviewing the movie (or the screenplay).</blockquote>

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