{"id":895,"date":"2003-09-05T21:09:04","date_gmt":"2003-09-05T21:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=895"},"modified":"2003-09-05T21:09:04","modified_gmt":"2003-09-05T21:09:04","slug":"i-will-be-very-unhappy-if-this-delays-the-movie-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2003\/09\/i-will-be-very-unhappy-if-this-delays-the-movie-release\/","title":{"rendered":"I will be very unhappy if this delays the movie release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unclebear.com\/comments.php?id=250_0_1_0_C\">White Wolf is suing Sony for copyright infringement re: Underworld and Vampire: the Masquerade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; alleging 17 counts of copyright infringement for the film <i>Underworld<\/i>, set for release on September 19. White Wolf alleges that Underworld characters, theme and setting are based on White Wolf&#8217;s award winning games Vampire: The Masquerade? and Werewolf: The Apocalypse&#8482;, both set in White Wolf&#8217;s fictional World of Darkness?.<br \/>\nPlaintiffs claim over 60 points of unique similarity between Underworld and their work. &#8220;Ours is a huge fictional world, supported by over 200 volumes of fictional material,&#8221; asserts Mike Tinney, White Wolf&#8217;s President. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, yeah&#8230;  I imagine that when you <s>rip of<\/s> use material from EVERY VAMPIRE AND WEREWOLF TROPE ever introduced in any medium and mash it into 200 fucking books over the course of the last decade, most folks won&#8217;t be able to swing an undead cat without hitting something you&#8217;ve already ripped off for your <i>own<\/i> purposes.<br \/>\nOne of the &#8220;copyright infringements&#8221; from the PDF copy of the legal claim:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;In WoD, vampires sometimes call each other &#8220;Vee,&#8221; short for vampire.  In Underworld, there is a vampire character named Vee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One sweatshop writer working for movie studios wrote a &#8216;love story between a vamp and were&#8217; that came off as being very much like a similar story idea written by a sweatshop writer working for a game company?  I&#8217;m shocked.<br \/>\nShocked, I tell you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So White Wolf is suing Sony for copyright infringement re: Underworld and Vampire: the Masquerade. &#8230; alleging 17 counts of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}