Judge slams law team for not playing Call of Duty in lead-up to Activision lawsuit ActivisionA lawyer who lost a plagiarism lawsuit case against Activision was sanctioned by the proceeding judge who found their lack of Call of Duty knowledge led to a \u201cfactually baseless complaint.\u201d Various big-name game developers and publishers have found themselves in the midst of a heated dispute over plagiarism accusations. Some individuals use social media to voice their claims of their work being \u2018stolen\u2019 by huge companies. Whereas, others go one step further and take it to court. Brooks Entertainment, Inc. sued Activision for supposedly ripping off its Stock Picker and Save One Bank games for its \u201cmain character\u201d in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. However, the case was quickly dismissed after the judge found that no such plagiarism had taken place and a quick play of the CoD title would have resolved the issue very easily. Judge dismisses Brooks Entertainment vs. Activision lawsuit According to legal news site JD Supra, the main issue was around the Infinite Warfare character Sergeant Sean Brooks. Brooks Entertainment claimed that the SATO Marine bore a striking resemblance to its character Shon Brooks. It alleged: \u201cShon Brooks and Sean Brooks both had unlimited resources and missiles; they bring thieves to justice; they traveled to Mars, and both games had scripted game battle scenes take place in a high fashion couture shopping center mall.\u201d However, anyone who is a fan of the game would instantly recognise that the main character of Infinite Warfare is Brooks\u2019 squad member Commander Nick Reyes. However, Activision\u2019s lawyer quashed any such similarities after having played the game themselves. They claimed \u201cthat many (if not virtually all) of the factual allegations in the Complaint were not accurate\u201d and contained a series of mistakes. The court judge agreed and dismissed the case, but not without blasting the plaintiff\u2019s lawyers for their supposed lack of prior research launching the case. \u201cPlaintiff\u2019s counsel could have easily verified these facts prior to filing the factually baseless Complaint,\u201d the judge stated. \u201cJust as the Court easily verified them within the first hour and a half of playing the game.\u201d As if being slammed for not playing enough CoD wasn\u2019t enough, the law team also had to foot the bill for Activision\u2019s legal fees and other case costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Judge slams law team for not playing Call of Duty in lead-up to Activision lawsuit ActivisionA lawyer who lost a plagiarism lawsuit case against Activision was sanctioned by the proceeding judge who found their lack of Call of Duty knowledge led to a \u201cfactually baseless complaint.\u201d Various big-name game developers and publishers have found themselves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}