White Wolf Sues Sony

Posted by Hemos on Sunday September 7, 2003 @11:29PM from the going-after-the-big-game dept.

etherlad writes "White Wolf, makers of pen-and-paper RPGs such as Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and author Nancy A. Collins, are suing Sony Pictures, Screen Gems and Lakeshore Entertainment for copyright infringement in the upcoming Underworld movie, which they claim not only is blatantly the World of Darkness with the serial numbers (partially) filed off, but that the movie is obviously ripped off Nancy Collins' novel Love of Monsters, also set in the World of Darkness. There's a PDF of the legal brief floating around, and to me (IANAL) it really looks like WW has a case."

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Big Companies Suck on Copyrights by Goo.cc · 2003-09-07 23:34 · Score: 4, Interesting

I hope that WW wins this case, as it is not the first time that a large company has ripped someone off.

What's ironic to me is that Sony, like Disney, really wants to prevent works from entering the public domain and will vigorously defend their copyrights but seem to have no problem with stealing copyright material or using material in the public domain. It is just sad.