Obligatory not a lawyer, this is going to be interesting I think if it ends up in court because it brings to question whether or not games or artists in general can feature certain weapons in their art depending on who the manufacturer is. Copyright symbolism is a thing I do know that but I'm not sure given the cats out of the back already when it comes to iconic rifles like the M4A1 and AK47 if he has a case here does that mean gun manufacturers can now start suing games companies left and right for featuring their weapons in their games? I feel like that's going to open up a can of worms and piss off a lot of people.
I'm thinking of a very specific case which is not related to guns but there was a situation with the red cross where they successfully sued a games developer over 'misuse' of their red cross symbol on medpacs. This is why pretty much all modern medpac designs are now done with the solid green and white cross rather than the more traditional white background and red cross.
I'm not making that up, I'm just citing law and being autistic, please don't shoot the messenger. I feel like claiming they 'stole' his gun is charged legal language and pretty click-baity which yes, it's a youtube video but maybe don't do that if you're planning on going to court over it. I wouldn't though, is it a dick thing to do? Yes, especially when you worked so hard on a project to make something truly unique, I totally understand, at the same time though if he does this it's going to set an extremely annoying legal precedent with other gun manufacturers going after games companies and maybe even indies if they have money for using specific variants of guns that they've created themselves.
Yes I've researched this type of thing as part of my work because I don't want to get sued either.
Ah fair enough, seen enough copyright infringement stuff that I often assume the worse, just like the banana game the red cross copyright infringement case sits in my head rent free.
It's very common for games to copy guns and just give them a new name
See Goldeneye from 1997 which renamed the FN P90 to RC-P90 amongst a whole slew of other guns. Perfect Dark did similar things including also having the FN P90 but now named RC-P45 in addition to the RC-P120.
I miss those games, and when the companies that made them were still those companies. The second Perfect Dark did not deserve to be a sequel to the first which was itself the spiritual successor of Goldeneye, just with everything dialed up to 12 with added bots for pve multiplayer mode.
RC P120
IRRC that thing had a massive magazine but took ages to get through it. Gimme the K7 Avenger or death! Said death probably being quite soon since the K7 only had 25 shots per mag 😬
Obligatory not a lawyer, this is going to be interesting I think if it ends up in court because it brings to question whether or not games or artists in general can feature certain weapons in their art depending on who the manufacturer is. Copyright symbolism is a thing I do know that but I'm not sure given the cats out of the back already when it comes to iconic rifles like the M4A1 and AK47 if he has a case here does that mean gun manufacturers can now start suing games companies left and right for featuring their weapons in their games? I feel like that's going to open up a can of worms and piss off a lot of people.
I'm thinking of a very specific case which is not related to guns but there was a situation with the red cross where they successfully sued a games developer over 'misuse' of their red cross symbol on medpacs. This is why pretty much all modern medpac designs are now done with the solid green and white cross rather than the more traditional white background and red cross.
I'm not making that up, I'm just citing law and being autistic, please don't shoot the messenger. I feel like claiming they 'stole' his gun is charged legal language and pretty click-baity which yes, it's a youtube video but maybe don't do that if you're planning on going to court over it. I wouldn't though, is it a dick thing to do? Yes, especially when you worked so hard on a project to make something truly unique, I totally understand, at the same time though if he does this it's going to set an extremely annoying legal precedent with other gun manufacturers going after games companies and maybe even indies if they have money for using specific variants of guns that they've created themselves.
Yes I've researched this type of thing as part of my work because I don't want to get sued either.
If you watch the video he says he's not interested in suing, thinks it's cool, and would have given both permission and advice if they'd asked.
Ah fair enough, seen enough copyright infringement stuff that I often assume the worse, just like the banana game the red cross copyright infringement case sits in my head rent free.
It's very common for games to copy guns and just give them a new name. Every other shooter these days has a Kriss Vector or an HK MP7.
I'd assume as long as you don't use the trademarked names/logos there's not much the manufacturer can do.
See Goldeneye from 1997 which renamed the FN P90 to RC-P90 amongst a whole slew of other guns. Perfect Dark did similar things including also having the FN P90 but now named RC-P45 in addition to the RC-P120.
Timesplitters 2 also did this with the SBP90.
I miss those games, and when the companies that made them were still those companies. The second Perfect Dark did not deserve to be a sequel to the first which was itself the spiritual successor of Goldeneye, just with everything dialed up to 12 with added bots for pve multiplayer mode.
IRRC that thing had a massive magazine but took ages to get through it. Gimme the K7 Avenger or death! Said death probably being quite soon since the K7 only had 25 shots per mag 😬