Tencent accuses Sony of trying "Leave the well-treaded corners of popular culture" In Horizon copyright lawsuit

This afternoon, two intense video game litigation choices to report. First, a snippet from the ongoing court scrap between former unknown world executives and Crafton is about the development state of Subnaucica 2, with the former accusing the latter of changing the story of why the executives were fired.

Rather than learning anything truly new about Subnautica 2 or its creators, I didn’t decide to write it because I feel like we’re in the realm of pot shots surrounding Minutiae, but if you’re interested, GamesIndustry.biz has your back. Parallel Tencent/Sony bust-up has a virtue of relative novelty. It gives me the whole different Something like a headache. So, what is happening in this?

Well, last November, Tencent announced that it would be publishing Light by Motiram, a post-apocalyptic adventure featuring robot mammoths, archery, redheaded women and scrap metal tribes. An involuntary commenter might argue that it is a “slavish clone” of the West where Sony’s Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon are forbidden. Anyway, that’s what Sony called this July when it announced it was going back to the Neo Stone era due to copyright infringement.

In a federal court application in California, Sony alleged that Tencent actually approached them in 2024 and pitched a new horizon game under license, even if development continued with Motiram light. As James said in our article, the meaning here is that Tencent was going to make their own horizon game, whether or not Sony agreed to brand it as an official sequel.

Sony tried to block the light of Motiram’s release, claiming it would “causing irreparable harm to Sie and consumers.” I depict lonely tears rolling the faces of consumer members as they beg the shopkeeper that they wanted other 6/10 Metal Dinosaur Game, this is not. Yes, it’s me – a horizon asshole. Still, I can’t deny that the games seem pretty similar. It tells us that Tencent has edited the Light on Motiram’s Steam page to remove some of the more obvious points of overlap with Horizon.

Tencent now fights back against Sony’s accusations in even bigger terms. They argue that Sony is seeking “an unacceptable monopoly on genre conventions,” and that Motiram’s light is not finished yet, and cannot be evaluated fairly for inventions or borrowing. They also say Sony is suing the wrong people.

As taken over by GamePost, Tencent’s allegations move to dismiss the comment in the case, “Sony’s efforts are not intended to combat copyright infringement, plagiarism, or true threats to intellectual property. It is an inappropriate attempt to declaring Sony’s exclusive domain, leaving the well-trampled corner of popular culture.”

Tencent further argues that Sony’s claims about Horizon Zero Dawn’s originality are “completely contradictory” by developer guerrillas, citing behind-the-scenes documentation compared to Ninja Theory’s 2013 action-adventure enslave. They also refer to “the long history of video games featuring the same elements that Sony is trying to monopolize through this lawsuit.”

They argue that Motiram’s Light “is only employing the same time-consuming ratios that are enveloped in many other games released before and after Horizon. In summary, they accused Sony of “trying to convert ubiquitous genre components into their own assets.”

Tencent has decided to proceed with the “Slavish Clones” despite not being granted permission regarding Sony’s claims that they wanted to create a horizon game for them, but the Tencent court refers to the GDC meeting from March 2024 when Tencent officials proposed a licensed horizon mobile game. They argue that the meeting cannot be said to be “a copyright or trademark infringement” because actual Tencent executives and employees are not participating in the meeting.

Regarding “sues for the wrong people,” Tencent Motion points out that while Sony’s lawsuit opposes Tencent America, Proxima Beta us and Tencent Holdings, Motiram’s Light was developed and published by Polaris Quest/Aurora Studios, which operates under Tencent Technology (Shangay). Game ‘ and/or “level Infinite” “Tencent’s lawyers have expressed the opinion that “the conclusional allegations in Sony’s Thread Bears are inappropriately summed up with these defendants and foreign companies that are allegedly responsible for the core conduct of the matter.”

I am not a lawyer, but despite my late efforts to educate myself, the last two paragraphs read to me as Tencent is about to quit his craft. I feel more sympathy for the line that Horizon is not so original and that certain ideas are public property. Except for this, I am sure that if the roles were reversed and Motiram’s light rose to the front of the horizon, before Zero Dawn, Tencent would have been screaming blue murders about copyright violations.

Motiram’s Light Discussion – 2027 -Yoinks or Yoink from Horizon compares ideas with aesthetics, so it’s fun to follow. However, in general, I default to picking the sides with a copyright spat between $2 billion video game publishers is like determining the cybernetic T-Rex you want to step out the most.