Sony Divinely Exonerated

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LordTheNightKnight said:

NeoRatt said:
In film and TV, the film makers will ask the building owners whether it is alright to use their buildings in a the film or TV show in the way they want...

This is just a courtesy thing the game industry has to learn as many of these buildings are marketed using significant dollars and the people that own the buildings want to maintain a specific image of the building.

I doubt it had any significant effect on not winning the award though. Resistence is good and scored 87% on average... Nominated and not winning an award seems like a fitting outcome. 90%+ games usually win the awards.

This is not the same thing. The permission is to physically go onto the property to film it. If the film/TV show makers don't have the permission, they use another place, like a similar building or set, and then pretend it's the place they wanted. And if they use a set, they may not even ask permission to use the building, as they didn't intend to go in there in the first place.

This is what Resistance did. They created a digtial facsimile of the cathedral. They did not physically go in there, so they shouldn't have had to ask permission.

QFT.  QF complete T.  If a film crew wants to shoot on site, they ask permission from the site.  If they decide to make a CGI version, pixel perfect down to the last inch, of that site, they ask permission from the pixels.  (Also, corrected spelling.)