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That said, I will repeat my earlier stance that this is a minor issue and really anyone crying faul here is really trying too hard to find something to cry about.
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While some people do take this too seriously it's a good thing that it's been called out. Businesses engaging in copyright theft is no joke. Look at it this way, would backers really want to see their funds being used in fighting a lawsuit?
I seem to remember a bunch of concerned citizens getting very upset when PWE's space game was announced, lots of concern posts and piling on the devs all over the place, even on PWE's forums. Lots of accusations about how they were lifting designs and ideas directly from Star Citizen. It wasn't ok for others to do it back then ... so there's no reason it should be ok for CIG to do it now.
Face it DS, Roberts could burn RSI to the ground and still have a more respected career than you, AND that is why you fight.
...says the guy who refused to see that it's literally the same image (see gif), and has yet to acknowledge it.
Is it a huge deal? Probably not (although it doesn't look good for CIG). If anything, this discussion highlights the fact that CIG can do no wrong in some people's eyes, even if their position has been shown to be empirically false.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
When backers found out that CIG was using derogatory tags on their CS processes via zendesk, CIG pulled the page down, and substituted it with this.
The under construction sign on the planet looked a little..interesting.
1. It was the first image result if you search for "under construction" in google.
2. It was actually a Stuttershock image, with the Copyright belonging to an Artist named Arcady.
3. The source image had a black shadow at the bottom.
What the guys at CIG did was to take the image from google, remove the shadow from the bottom and then paste it on the planet. This produced a noticeable jagged edge on the bottom, due to sloppy cropping.
This was caught up in the SA forums and reposted a couple of times..the result is that the page looks like this right now.
https://cloudimperiumservicesllc.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
So much for learning from past mistakes, right?
Keep in mind - however - that it was not CIG that did this. It seems it was a freelance artist that probably sold this to CIG as a genuine work of art created by him.
Any legal battle between the copyright owner will be with the freelance artist, NOT CIG.
CIG might even participate because they may have been deceived by the freelance artist themselves.
But hey, this is the US .... seems like almost everything is settled out of court it its not murder or terrorism.
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Have you also talked in that post about certain people that in 2010 used whole passages of a press release from Bioware to promote another game ?
That game was Alganon.
Back then it was an "innocent mistake made by a subordinate".
Hhmm, who could that conpany owner have been ? Name escapes me at the moment. Must have been no one worth remembering.
But it shows that other companies do this too. You should mention them too and apply the same standards.
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PS:
Some people even use marketing art from TV companies and photoshop it so it can be used as "book covers" for their "Original Work of Art". Despicable practice, would you not agree ... ? But hey, I am sure some people claim FAIR USE for altered pictures ....
I use "seem" and "probably" because i did not check and verify the information myself personally.
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Nice for you to step in his defense, though i doubt that he will appreciate your effort.
Do that for the others that mentioned it on the Internet too .... all of them ... you gotta get em all ;-) ... via the search engine of your choice.
As I mentioned above, this is NOT an information that i personally have verified.
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That's where things start getting messy though.
If you were a contractor and wrote some code while under the employ of a company, they would claim ownership of the code, in the same way that this artwork will more than likely be called CIG's artwork via contractual terms.
They wouldn't want someone like Mr.Martin to be paid for work but still retain the copyright on what he produces, down the line that could lead to all sorts of trouble.
As they are taking ownership they would also be liable for any infringement (should it occur).
You can either view criticism as unhelpful or helpful in improving.
On 2005 Japanese game company Leaf was forced to release source code of four of its games due to using XVid codec.
Plenty of indie artists are struggling, but at least they've never plagiarized anyone.
Now, whether or not that's what's happened here, I can't say. I don't know enough about the original photo. I just wanted to make it clear that I feel plagiarism is a serious issue.
All the best to CIG.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
I think his point was more: pot, meet kettle.
I recalled this incident but wasn't sure if it occurred before or after DS's takeover of Alganon so i decided not to mention it.
They almost copy - pasted whole blocks of Bioware's press release and used it to promote their game. Of course being who he is he blamed anyone else except himself.