A 'Mech in the trailer to the new Mechwarrior video/computer game looks too much like an Excalibur for Harmony Gold's comfort. Cease-and-desist orders and press bulletins are flying in all directions. Lock-n-load, boys!
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A 'Mech in the trailer to the new Mechwarrior video/computer game looks too much like an Excalibur for Harmony Gold's comfort. Cease-and-desist orders and press bulletins are flying in all directions. Lock-n-load, boys!
Stephen "FPilot" Bierce
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Chris Meadows has been making a series of Facebook posts on the subject.
Amazing how so much of the stuff he's reporting confirms things I heard in the last 15 years about HG's lack of certain rights, and their attempts to take them by other means. Stan Bundy sbundy@kih.net ICQ: Basara (2878324) Xfire: basara549
"One should always be wary of a scientist speaking out of his narrow field, or those invoking their name outside their fields. Scientists are human too, and are just as prone to cling to 'causes', just or frivolous, as the rest of our species." - Dr. Peter Wykoff Walker, 11 Sept 1997, rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated |
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And I've been making posts on Livejournal. HG hasn't been alone in this behavior. Besides, who can blame them now? One of their most successful
properties in recent years was the Robotech console game series. And the movie is still in the works.
Stephen "FPilot" Bierce
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SCREENSHOTS!
My view: the Warhammer (called such in the graphics) here is completely different IN SURFACE DETAIL to the Studio Nue anime original, but FUNCTIONALLY identical to the concept in the original Battletech game. It probably fits the legal definition of reverse-engineered. I wouldn't want to be in the courtroom for this case.
Stephen "FPilot" Bierce
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