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Man sues Ubisoft over copyright infringment on the AC series
Night Fox:
"Beiswenger is seeking 1.05 million in damages and up to $5.25 million if the judge rules Ubisoft knowingly infringed on the copyright"
what a greedy piece of stuff, I bet the book's horrible too
Extrude:
--- Quote from: Night Fox on April 18, 2012, 05:19:01 PM ---"Beiswenger is seeking 1.05 million in damages and up to $5.25 million if the judge rules Ubisoft knowingly infringed on the copyright"
what a greedy piece of stuff, I bet the book's horrible too
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There's also the fact that he could of collected millions of dollars in royalties.
Packer:
--- Quote from: Night Fox on April 18, 2012, 05:19:01 PM ---"Beiswenger is seeking 1.05 million in damages and up to $5.25 million if the judge rules Ubisoft knowingly infringed on the copyright"
what a greedy piece of stuff, I bet the book's horrible too
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Nope those numbers look reasonable to me, if Ubisoft did copy his work they're making profit off someone else's content. Ubisoft in 2010 made 1.2 Billion at the end of the financial year, AC2 selling 9 mill copies times that by about $40 and you've got $360,000,000. This guy is asking for $6,300,000 of a story of which it looks like Ubisoft directly copied from, that's really not much in the long run. That's barely 3% of one of the games profits, if he was to be completely compensated he'd get something like 25% of the entire franchise.
PowerDag:
--- Quote from: Packer on April 18, 2012, 05:37:00 PM ---Nope those numbers look reasonable to me, if Ubisoft did copy his work they're making profit off someone else's content. Ubisoft in 2010 made 1.2 Billion at the end of the financial year, AC2 selling 9 mill copies times that by about $40 and you've got $360,000,000. This guy is asking for $6,300,000 of a story of which it looks like Ubisoft directly copied from, that's really not much in the long run. That's barely 3% of one of the games profits, if he was to be completely compensated he'd get something like 25% of the entire franchise.
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and then he'd be a very very rich man
Nickelob Ultra:
--- Quote from: Packer on April 18, 2012, 05:37:00 PM ---Nope those numbers look reasonable to me, if Ubisoft did copy his work they're making profit off someone else's content. Ubisoft in 2010 made 1.2 Billion at the end of the financial year, AC2 selling 9 mill copies times that by about $40 and you've got $360,000,000. This guy is asking for $6,300,000 of a story of which it looks like Ubisoft directly copied from, that's really not much in the long run. That's barely 3% of one of the games profits, if he was to be completely compensated he'd get something like 25% of the entire franchise.
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Okay, $360m, but you have to factor in the cost to make AC3.