Dublinthefox Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Ubisoft is getting sued over Assassins Creed. An author named John Beiswenger is suing Ubisoft Saying that Assassins Creed steals from his 2003 novel titled "Link". He claims that similarities between the fact that his book also uses a plot device of reliving memories through ancestors during historical times and locations through the use of virtual reality. He is seeking over $1,000,000 in damages and is seeking to stop the release of Assassins Creed 3. In response to this, gamers have found his book on Amazon.com and have been posting dozens of negative comments about his book. He has no chance of winning this case anyways. Unless he can prove that his book also contains magical space artifacts from space civilizations and an Italian main character who has overstayed his welcome and a forced in tower-defense portion. Source: http://kotaku.com/59...ins-creed-first Beiswenger's Book: http://www.johnbeisw...author/link.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fana McCloud Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Putting aside the question of the veracity of his claim, unless the game is pretty much a carbon copy of the book and not just borrowing elements copyright in no way applies - it protects his implementation of the ideas, not the ideas themselves. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dublinthefox Posted April 20, 2012 Author Share Posted April 20, 2012 Putting aside the question of the veracity of his claim, unless the game is pretty much a carbon copy of the book and not just borrowing elements copyright in no way applies - it protects his implementation of the ideas, not the ideas themselves. I stand corrected. He has no chance of winning............Well........as of what I've read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!Corgi Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Even if he does have an extremely strong case and very good evidence, Ubisoft and companys as extremely mamoth alike can simply just draw out the court over years and years spending careless amounts of money to their llawyers till this author and anyone else who chooses to sue them runs out of money. There was a similar case with Iphone and Android. Some of googles employees litterally stole segments of code from the IOS on Iphone, This was later discovered by Apple and when they spoke about it, Google lol'ed and said "Sue me... Come on." and apple knows that Google is a multi multi multi billion dollar corporation while apple is considerably smaller. The amount of money that Google can dish out in llawyers is far superior to what Apple could due and thus the lawsuit failed and google walked on happily, Continuing to make billions and billions of dollars. -Side note, If Google has over a million servers, Just as you can purchase a star in your name, You should be allowed to name a server computer in your name to go down in history. I'd so pay for that LOL! (Sorry A.D.D) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owner/Technical Admin Sideways Posted April 20, 2012 Owner/Technical Admin Share Posted April 20, 2012 Why not build a server in the comfort of your own home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sroberson Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 *Internet points to Corgi* Personally I have to wonder why this author JUST NOW started getting upset about Ubisoft supposedly ripping off elements from his book. I mean, five years into the 'race' already, its a bit hard to pipe up and say "whoa whoa whoa! Hey! That game you made 5 years ago that could have been based on my book but I didn't speak up about it because (insert stupid or crooked reason)...Yeah I want my money now!" If the guy was just asking for the million dollars and would shut up I could see Ubisoft just shelling out the dough to make him go away, but since he trying to bar AC3 - I think they will do exactly what Corgi said. Stall the legal process and put the author in serious debt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fana McCloud Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 There was a similar case where someone had written a story that was allegedly ripped off by both Terminator and the Matrix and they sued only long after both came out. Maybe they don't watch culture all too closely and only realize years later - either that or it's another sign that they're just out for money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redeemer Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 The only thing similar between the two is the means to see the past. Everything else is unique. But to be honest, the idea of a machine that lets you view the past isn't ground-breakingly original either. He probably loves his own story too much to see this. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeth Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Yeah I herd about that, I just get why he desided to sue NOW. I mean Assassins Creed has been out seince 2007, why the heck didn't he sue Ubisoft then? And he doesn't even have a chance of winning anyways, so yeah this whole thing kind of made me lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthDelgado Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 You know, people borrow ideas all the time. Most of the time they don't get sued though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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