Square is risking BIG lawsuit with pictomancer...

[Bun_Vivant]

Not like you lawyer either?

Well, I am. And I took courses in both US Copyright law and International Copyright Law when in law school (a T14 law school, if that matters to you).
Two points I want to make:

1. You cannot copyright an idea or a concept, only expression, and even duplicate expression may not be actionable under copyright law, depending on ... a lot of things.
2. Copyright law is subtle and complicated, and even lawyers who don't specialize in it should leave it to the lawyers who do.

And because my expertise is patent law, not copyright, and even more importantly because I do not know the dispositive facts about this particular alleged copying, that's all I'm going to say about it.

[Gemina]

Please read the whole topic before responding. You wouldve learnt that this is a troll and you just fell for it.

I've actually been around awhile. Perhaps not as much recently as in previous years, but still enough to know that the OP has no love for Pictomancer and is constantly called a troll for his views, and an unpopular view does not necessarily make someone a troll. Especially if it triggers overly sensitive people with too much time on their hands.

But for the sake of argument let's say OP is a huge troll. This thread has reached 10 pages. Mine being in the latter half. Why did you choose mine to single out? Especially considering that it asks a genuine question that places accountability on SE for copyright infringement?

[MikkoAkure]

I've actually been around awhile. Perhaps not as much recently as in previous years, but still enough to know that the OP has no love for Pictomancer and is constantly called a troll for his views, and an unpopular view does not necessarily make someone a troll. Especially if it triggers overly sensitive people with too much time on their hands.

But for the sake of argument let's say OP is a huge troll. This thread has reached 10 pages. Mine being in the latter half. Why did you choose mine to single out? Especially considering that it asks a genuine question that places accountability on SE for copyright infringement?

It's a troll thread when it's obvious bait from someone who is already well known for posting stuff like this. If you're having trouble deciding, you can check the OP's character and they will likely only have 1 DoM/DoW at 90 but full DoL/DoH 90s.

As far as the content of the thread, there's no actual genuine anything. It's already been pointed out that Relm from FFVI and Pictomancer from both Bravely Default II and Brave Exvius Season 3 all predate the artist class from LoA. There's been whole threads in this forum asking for pictomancer to be a playable job that are older than the artist class from LoA. If anything, they would have more likely taken the idea from SE instead of the other way around.

Art magic has been around in media for a long long time anyway. You can't copyright throwing fireballs so I don't understand how you could copyright paint magic.

[EZGIL]

time to call for the man . . .

[Sea-Wolf]

Who the heck is Nixon? You keep mentioning that name like some mantra. A 1 minute search shows absolutely zero connection between Lost Ark and this non-entity.

It's the Korean game company... they own maple stories, lost ark, and deep dungeon fighter

[Sea-Wolf]

Didn't SE face a big 'ol lawsuit for Fiend? They pretty much ripped it from Powerman 5000's World's Collide? What exactly happened here?

FF entire history lacks originality, but that by itself is not a crime. There's nothing wrong with putting your own spin on an existing cliche, or stereotype. But that's not the same as straight up ripping off someone else's idea. Had it not been pointed out, I would have thought the LoA artwork on the first page was associated with pictomancer. But this comes from a view of not knowing LoA existed previous to this thread.

Exactly, in the law court. They will show a jury an Artist and a Pictomancer, and ask: who is who, when the jury all fail SE will be in DEEP "Trouble".,

[Sea-Wolf]

Well, I am. And I took courses in both US Copyright law and International Copyright Law when in law school (a T14 law school, if that matters to you).
Two points I want to make:

1. You cannot copyright an idea or a concept, only expression, and even duplicate expression may not be actionable under copyright law, depending on ... a lot of things.
2. Copyright law is subtle and complicated, and even lawyers who don't specialize in it should leave it to the lawyers who do.

And because my expertise is patent law, not copyright, and even more importantly because I do not know the dispositive facts about this particular alleged copying, that's all I'm going to say about it.

You can self study law on the internet, there's a thing called online research, did u know? I researched into Nixon's lawsuits, and let me tell you, they are AGGRESSIVE, and it doesn't matter if it's win or lose, it will drag Square into legal trouble and distract them.

[SDaemon]

You can self study law on the internet, there's a thing called online research, did u know? I researched into Nixon's lawsuits, and let me tell you, they are AGGRESSIVE, and it doesn't matter if it's win or lose, it will drag Square into legal trouble and distract them.

Congregations on your Google degree! May the colorful crayon doodles never fade!

[Zolvolt]

You can self study law on the internet, there's a thing called online research, did u know? I researched into Nixon's lawsuits, and let me tell you, they are AGGRESSIVE, and it doesn't matter if it's win or lose, it will drag Square into legal trouble and distract them.

It doesn't matter how aggressive they are, you can not overcome copyright law with aggression.

[Aword3213]

Who the heck is Nixon?

You can self study law on the internet,there's a thing called online research

Hello, professor Google Search, and my esteemed keyboard lawyer. Pleasure to meet you. Here's your 100th reply for your honest work.

Unlike you, I've done 10 hours of research

Yet you still spelled it wrong. It's Nexon. It seems your ten hours of research has gone straight to trash can, professor.

Nixon put a huge copyright disclaimer

Yes, but Nixon has sued many people before

the "History" of Nixon's suing. (Nixon has more than 20 lawsuits).

I researched into Nixon's lawsuits

BIG lawsuit coming from Nixon. Since Nixon owns LoA

BIG lawsuit coming from Nixon. Since Nixon owns LoA

It's the Korean game company... they own maple stories, lost ark, and deep dungeon fighter

Do they really? Are you sure?

Weird.

The information presented to me by your trusted google search tells me otherwise. Lost Ark is developed and published by Smilegate. Amazon is the publisher for western countries.
What does Nexon have anything to do with Lost Ark anyway?


Pretty sure a knowledgeable copyright expert like you can enlighten me as to why Nexon isn't on the list.