Midway wins one: publisher cleared of Psi-Ops lawsuit |
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Finally, some good news for Midway. The embattled publisher has been cleared of the copyright infringement case brought against it by screenwriter William L. Crawford III.Crawford sued Midway last year for allegedly stealing ideas from a screenplay of his called "Psi-Ops". The stolen ideas were supposedly used for the Midway game Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy.
According to Crawford, both the script and the game had striking similarities including characters, plot elements, and telekinetic powers. Crawford said that Midway may seen his screenplay while he was shopping it around during E3 2001 or from the websites he made to promote it.
Although Crawford copyrighted his screenplay in 1998 and Midway copyrighted the game in 2004, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper ruled that the similarities between the two works were not protectable under the Copyright Act.
Judge Cooper also noted that there was "minimal evidence supporting a reasonable possibility" that Midway stole Crawford's ideas and that "[n]o reasonable juror can find that Plaintiffs’ [screenplay and web sites] and Defendants’ video game are substantially similar in the expression of their ideas.”
This saves Midway from having to pay the US$ 1.5 million that Crawford was seeking in compensation. It's a small victory, though, as Midway still has to come up with US$ 150 million or declare bankruptcy.
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Via Kotaku
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lucky
I didn't even know they were still in that lawsuit. I always wanted a sequel to that game. Maybe if they can rob a few banks errm I mean come up with $150mil, they'll finally start work on it.
i wanted midway to go, name a good game they evver made besides nhl hitz and mortal kombat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_Games#Video_games
There you go Mr. n00b.
Majorbb100 has been given orders to quit the internets.
Maybe we should ask congress for a bail out plan? They've been very generous lately, whats 150 million more to them?
it would beat bailing out some crap companies like GM.
gms only problem is they dont know the value of a dollar. ***** 'em.
I love Midway.. Sure some of the MK games are bad, but I mean, YouTube some old games.. Feel the nostalgia! And MK vs DC wasn't bad at all, it feels like Mortal Kombat surprisingly. I play it with my friend all the time.. Well I did til I got Left 4 Dead.
Cruis'in! I used to play that series all the time.. and Killer Instinct? That was them? Killer Instinct used to be AMAZING, I actually bought it for my Gameboy Pocket haha.. Come on Midway, you can do eet!
I doubt they'll make it. We'll see the end of a good company. I don't want it to happen, but everyone has to die sometime. Even Midway.