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<blockquote data-quote="reapersaurus" data-source="post: 1113498" data-attributes="member: 1194"><p>I was wondering if anyone was going to talk about the videogame angle.</p><p>While reading the pdf, I noticed 2 other clear properties WW was defending:</p><p>the upcoming videogame, and Lucita.</p><p></p><p>The videogame angle seems like another reason why Sony is forcing WW's hand in filing this lawsuit.</p><p>But the Lucita character "infringement"?</p><p>Come on - I don't see how they can reasonably expect to copyright an ass-kicking, werewolf-hunting female character. It's not like they've cornered the market on ass-kicking females.</p><p>(Now, I'm not that familiar with the character of Lucita, and if anyone has any info as to how Underworld ripped off Lucita particularly, and not a generic AKF character, please let me know).</p><p></p><p>About the Penny-Arcade comic - </p><p>it was sloppy.</p><p>Just like many comments about WW's lawsuit - sloppy and lazy.</p><p>If you do the homework and read the lawsuit, you'd see that WW's argument doesn't come down to "We invented vampires and werewolves". That's simplistic and misleading and insulting, and anyone that parrots that approach is just throwing mud into the discussion.</p><p></p><p>BTW: personally, the strongest parts of the lawsuit are the shared differences from traditional vampires, as well as character actions and relationships (torpor, what the childe and sire are doing, etc) as well as the conceit that there are 2 "groups" in Underworld: a ruling group (Ventrue in WW) and a group that is concerned with beauty (Toreador in WW).</p><p></p><p>Put all the points together and it certainly is not a frivolous case.</p><p>Upon close enough examination, even identical twins can be made to look as being very different from each other, if you ignore the obvious and start going into minutia...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="reapersaurus, post: 1113498, member: 1194"] I was wondering if anyone was going to talk about the videogame angle. While reading the pdf, I noticed 2 other clear properties WW was defending: the upcoming videogame, and Lucita. The videogame angle seems like another reason why Sony is forcing WW's hand in filing this lawsuit. But the Lucita character "infringement"? Come on - I don't see how they can reasonably expect to copyright an ass-kicking, werewolf-hunting female character. It's not like they've cornered the market on ass-kicking females. (Now, I'm not that familiar with the character of Lucita, and if anyone has any info as to how Underworld ripped off Lucita particularly, and not a generic AKF character, please let me know). About the Penny-Arcade comic - it was sloppy. Just like many comments about WW's lawsuit - sloppy and lazy. If you do the homework and read the lawsuit, you'd see that WW's argument doesn't come down to "We invented vampires and werewolves". That's simplistic and misleading and insulting, and anyone that parrots that approach is just throwing mud into the discussion. BTW: personally, the strongest parts of the lawsuit are the shared differences from traditional vampires, as well as character actions and relationships (torpor, what the childe and sire are doing, etc) as well as the conceit that there are 2 "groups" in Underworld: a ruling group (Ventrue in WW) and a group that is concerned with beauty (Toreador in WW). Put all the points together and it certainly is not a frivolous case. Upon close enough examination, even identical twins can be made to look as being very different from each other, if you ignore the obvious and start going into minutia... [/QUOTE]
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