Sony pick up Ghostbusters game

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selnor said:

2nd if Sony have pulled the Rights thing with Sony Pictures, will they end up in court for the same thing M$ did with monopolising an industry? Effectively nothing would stop Sony having all Sony Pictures film/game adaptions only appearing on a Sony console. That is monopolising, so I cant see it being that.

Short answer, no. If you own the sole copyright to something then you have the full force of the law BEHIND you to monopolise anything and everything to which you can remotely establish a connection to the copyrighted material.

If you've signed over the right for someone else to use the material for a particular purpose, then try to take it back then you might be in some contractual difficulty. But that's nothing to do with monopolies. That's contract law, a completely different legal beast.

If Sony owned the copyrights on every movie ever made there is nothing any rival console or game maker could do to force Sony to allow someone else to use the material. That's what copyright means. The owner of the "copy" has ALL the "rights". Everyone else in the world has none.

Why would Sony hog all movie --> game adaptations for exclusive release on the PS brand? Every time a Wii/X360/PC/DS version is sold Sony is ringing the cash register. They might hold back the occasional movie franchise for exlusivity if they think there is a system selling advantage aver the easy money they'll make off game sales on other consoles. But are Movie-->Game adaptations really system sellers, really really?

The fate of the PS3 cannot be helped by keeping movie--> game adaptations exclusive, neither can it be hindered by letting them all go multiplat.

Timed exclusivity sounds like a very happy and profit maximising medium.