| curl-6 said: Apparently Sony is asking for $150,000 in damages, and for all of Light of Motiram's assets to be destroyed: https://www.gamingbible.com/news/platform/playstation/horizon-zero-dawn-clone-sued-301685-20250729 |
The demand for destruction of assets reminds me of a much older copyright case - much, much older. It involves one of the classical movies and a novel that was very influental. I speak about "Nosferatu - eine Symphonie des Grauens", an expressionist movie that was a landmark and influenced the horror genre, despite most of it's copies getting destroyed based on a case started by Bram Stokers widow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu
Funny thing is: both the movie and the novel are now so old, that you can replicate it without a problem, the copyright terms on both are past their term.
This is by the way how a lot of the movie and gaming industry works. Just ask yourself how often alone ancient greek myths (Herakles/Hercules, the olympian gods, the fight on Troja, the Odyssee) are used in modern movies (the whole Wonder Women series, Percy Jackson, the odyssee in O Brother There Art Thou), series (Xena, Kaos, Blood of Zeus) and games (God of War, Hades). And that is only one source of inspiration that has it's copyright terms ended.
