13th July 2004, 2:25 PM
Fatal Fury, DJ, Fatal Fury. Not KOF. :)
Oh, and a similar mod tale happened with the Aliens mod for Doom. Had to quit it when the copywright holder complained...
Look, this is clearly a bubble case. Yes, Fatal Fury was decided in the favor of SNK... but the first case like this was about KC Munchkin, and in that one Atari won (in the decicision that that game was a Pac-Man clone)... sure, Bradbury might lose because they may say that it's not enough of a connection. But you act like the very idea of a lawsuit is absurd, which it most certainly is not. Not with the amount of connections Moore makes by using that name... not even close.
This is different of course from those cases though since Farenheight 9/11 is a very different thing from Farenheight 451 -- sci-fi vs. documentary, after all. And certainly films have drawn on others without being sued. But if you get too close you can be... that's a big part of why Nintendo made the lightsaber weapon in SSB not make a lightsaber sound in the US version, after all. :) This definitely fits under that category.
But again, I think Bradbury would be stupid to sue because of all the free publicity he's getting and how if he makes a big issue of it it'll just get people annoyed at him.
Oh, and a similar mod tale happened with the Aliens mod for Doom. Had to quit it when the copywright holder complained...
Look, this is clearly a bubble case. Yes, Fatal Fury was decided in the favor of SNK... but the first case like this was about KC Munchkin, and in that one Atari won (in the decicision that that game was a Pac-Man clone)... sure, Bradbury might lose because they may say that it's not enough of a connection. But you act like the very idea of a lawsuit is absurd, which it most certainly is not. Not with the amount of connections Moore makes by using that name... not even close.
This is different of course from those cases though since Farenheight 9/11 is a very different thing from Farenheight 451 -- sci-fi vs. documentary, after all. And certainly films have drawn on others without being sued. But if you get too close you can be... that's a big part of why Nintendo made the lightsaber weapon in SSB not make a lightsaber sound in the US version, after all. :) This definitely fits under that category.
But again, I think Bradbury would be stupid to sue because of all the free publicity he's getting and how if he makes a big issue of it it'll just get people annoyed at him.
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