| nuckles87 said: Wasn't talking about you. I was talking to the person making the huge list of titles he claims are not owned by Sony, while using words like "probably", indicating he didn't really do much research. His list isn't quite as wrong as I initially thought it would be, but there are still some glaring errors. |
I'm doing research in one direction. Where I use words like "probably", it's an indication that I hadn't found sufficient proof for me to be certain.
One thing I hadn't considered was checking for Sony trademarks. Although one does need to be careful with regards to the difference between copyright and trademark (trademark refers to the name - Leander, for instance, was the name of a game published by Psygnosis... then the developer had it published by EA on the Mega Drive under a different name. It's likely the name, Leander, was trademarked by Psygnosis, but the game and IP was copyrighted by the developer).
There were always going to be a few mistakes along the way. You appear to have identified Parappa and Journey as being owned by Sony. You also identified that Papa & Yo, which I marked as "debatable", was actually not Sony at all. Note that flOw, the first of the series from Thatgamecompany, isn't trademarked by Sony. Not sure about Flower - it's got the "registered" mark, rather than the TM. It's not exactly unreasonable to expect the same situation to apply to the later titles - it's not guaranteed, but it's certainly reasonable.
Also note that I never intended my list to be simply removed from the listings entirely - I meant for them to be considered for removal, a chance to hopefully cut down on the effort that would otherwise be necessary. I fully figured that, if there were errors, someone would catch them and correct them, just as I was trying to do with the original list.
