Yeah, stupid plan of his backfired in the worst way. Now the only hope the """""author""""" has is to recoup his lost dignity with the lawsuit (I ran out of quotation marks / sarcasm quotes on that word).AdamG3691 said:
Assassin's Creed Copyright Suit Lawyer Speaks Out
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Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh had a much much better case against Dan Brown in their lawsuit. Basically Bailent and Leigh wrote a non-fictional book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. Dan Brown acknowledge he used ideas from the other authors book to create the best seller The Da Vinci Code. "Baigent and Leigh acknowledged that copyright should not protect against the borrowing of an idea contained in a work. But they argued that their book made a sequence of connections that no-one had made before."
This lawsuit failed in the UK court system. "Justice Smith observed: 'When a book is put forward as being a non fictional book and contains a large number of facts and ideas it is always going to be a difficult exercise in trying to protect against copying of those facts and ideas because as such they cannot be protected. It is the effort and time that has gone into the way in which those ideas and facts are presented that is capable of protection.'"
Unfortunately the case is not going to be settled in the UK.
This lawsuit failed in the UK court system. "Justice Smith observed: 'When a book is put forward as being a non fictional book and contains a large number of facts and ideas it is always going to be a difficult exercise in trying to protect against copying of those facts and ideas because as such they cannot be protected. It is the effort and time that has gone into the way in which those ideas and facts are presented that is capable of protection.'"
Unfortunately the case is not going to be settled in the UK.
Well, damn. Who got the lawyer that knows how to calmly, matter-of-factly deal with these things? Our shenanigans have less merit when someone tells us they don't impact the matter at hand. Nuts.
It's the little things like this that make me love the Escapist. Almost the entire news team, when they're not tongue bathing GOG.com and their remarkable sales, has their tongue in their cheek and their wit on high. It's okay. We know that "Games Journalism is a totally legit career, dad". We understand. Let them shake their heads in disapproval.Hevva said:
"All I can say is that Keller is an experienced-sounding lawyer with a website"
So did anyone else see this line as an invitation to mess with said lawyer?
So did anyone else see this line as an invitation to mess with said lawyer?
over 5M??? for a book no one knows, sold badly and got not so good ratings??? is he serious???
sounds to me he is just greedy and jealous because his book is bad. lets see what the court will say about this.
if he wins, he really needs the 5M to hire really good security guys to protect him, from really pissed off AC fans.
sounds to me he is just greedy and jealous because his book is bad. lets see what the court will say about this.
if he wins, he really needs the 5M to hire really good security guys to protect him, from really pissed off AC fans.
I know people have already said this, but I think it's an important point that bears repeating. Nothing good will become of this if Ubi loses the case. OK, Ubisoft loses some money, big deal, plenty more where that came from, whatever. Trouble is, there are a LOT of small-time books out there that likely noone would ever had heard of, with stories vaguely similar to those in certain games, depending on how you spin it. Winning this case sets a precedence for other authors to sue on the grounds that they came up with an idea first, and have intellectual authority over it. Cue floodgates.
If there's any silver lining in that, it's that game writers will have to really work their imagination to the limits to think of something truly unique, but it would still be a sad state of affairs.
If there's any silver lining in that, it's that game writers will have to really work their imagination to the limits to think of something truly unique, but it would still be a sad state of affairs.
Dude, did you read the experience section on her site? I wouldn't try to mess with this lady. She has Esquire after her name. The link was more or less the only info I could find on her career in law, so it was included. (Also I was totally not inviting any messings, sorry if it came off like that.)robert022614 said:
I was wondering what happened with this.
I think it's pretty sad that a self published, and by all accounts, terribly written book, is somehow holding up production of a major series. Copyright litigation should not be this abusable. It's like the patent trolls who patent concepts and then sue the crap out of anyone who successfully implements them.
Unless there is a clear link (heh) between this shitty novel that nobody had ever heard of prior to this lawsuit and the game, then this is just one more greedy pathetic moron trying leech off of other people's success.
I think it's pretty sad that a self published, and by all accounts, terribly written book, is somehow holding up production of a major series. Copyright litigation should not be this abusable. It's like the patent trolls who patent concepts and then sue the crap out of anyone who successfully implements them.
Unless there is a clear link (heh) between this shitty novel that nobody had ever heard of prior to this lawsuit and the game, then this is just one more greedy pathetic moron trying leech off of other people's success.
Lol. The two are reasonably different, but funny comment none-the-less. I approveKeyMaster45 said:
Yeah, because Jim is a good moral compass -_-Nicolaus99 said:
The twat harassed a woman on Twitter and called her both a **** and a femanazi. He also goes out of his way to act like a tosser and his little "I'm a god" facade has been going on since birth, if you know what I mean. Everything that "man" does is childish, inane and wrapped in stupidity.
Actually I think Amazon should make it impossible for someone who hasn't bought product through them should review it. It's possible and not too hard. It can even take that data and use it to make the recommendations they offer even better.Goofguy said:
OT: It will be interesting to see how this case will progress, but I think the similarities of his book and Assassin's Creed are too vague to be called a copyright infringement.
Look, if Cameron didn't get his ass sued off for plagiarizing cut-and-paste elements and names from that Russian book for Avatar there's no way this is going to stick. Besides, there's also precedence for these issues. Cross-media doesn't tend to hold up well. Look up Universal V. Nintendo, the infamous Donkey Kong versus King Kong suit.
Basically this is a publicity stunt to get interest in a passed-over novel. He's going to get some people to buy it despite the Amazon bombing (which this article is a disarm for the non-gaming public). It'll probably get dropped or they'll settle at the courthouse step.
I'll say it before and I'll say it again. There's probably copyright suits being filed every minute of every day across the world. They're the bread-and-butter of many a lawyer. The fact that they get coverage is what makes them seem so bad.
Basically this is a publicity stunt to get interest in a passed-over novel. He's going to get some people to buy it despite the Amazon bombing (which this article is a disarm for the non-gaming public). It'll probably get dropped or they'll settle at the courthouse step.
I'll say it before and I'll say it again. There's probably copyright suits being filed every minute of every day across the world. They're the bread-and-butter of many a lawyer. The fact that they get coverage is what makes them seem so bad.
Yea... I can just see some idiot dressed as Ezio with a bad fake Italian accent tries to attack him with a stick coming out of his white hoodie. Hmm...Metalrocks said:
I hope that the truth will prevail. If the man has a legitimate claim to the idea of the Animus to the extent that it isn't just similar, then I hope he wins. Otherwise I want Ubisoft to make sure there is a publication ban on the proceedings so the author's name and book vanish from the face of the planet.
Last time this was reported on I noted that no one -bar perhaps two or three people- had even *possibly* read the book in question. And once again, people are commenting (a lot of them very angrily) about a man and his works without ever having encountered said man, or read said book. Could at least one of you try researching a topic, or at least having a firm grasp of its internal workings before commenting on it? I've made that mistake before, and it made me look like a dick, how do you think you all look? The hell of it is, someone's gonna get pissy because I said that.