SpokenTruth said:
If blood color or a subtitle were enough to bypass a copyright, MS would have fired that copyright lawyer....and probably sued them for lost revenue. The content itself, characters, story, art, etc...are always part of the copyright. I cannot imagine a scenario where those are unintentionally left out by a legal team or willfully not included at the behest of the copyright holder. |
The IP belongs to Tecmo, MIcrosoft funded the game and published it. Microsoft can't copyrite anything in there as they don't own the IP and I doubt Tecmo's lawyers would put assets in a in a contract. The best Microsoft would have been able to do is to put wording to keep the game itself since they have a vested interest in it. Obviously Microsoft's lawyers didn't care enough to go into great length to prevent Ninja Gaiden 2 Sigma and Tecmo made enough changes for whatever is in their contract for it to not hold up in court.
