Thu, Feb 14, 2008 | 09:17 GMT
Dead Rising-Romero legal spat escalates in US
According to this, a legal dispute between New Line Cinema and Capcom over “similarities” between Dawn of the Dead and Xbox 360 game Dead Rising is heating up. Capcom has filed a letter to an LA court saying that “humans battling zombies in a shopping mall” is a “wholly unprotectible idea” by copyright standards after New Line originally complained about similarities between the two properties.
The two parties have been in talks about the matter for some time, according to that piece, but have obviously failed to reach a resolution.
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Posted in: Action, America, Capcom, Legalities, Xbox 360
Tags: dawn of the dea, dead rising
3 comments
#1
Tiger Walts
14/02/08, 10:26 am
Capcom should submit Max Brooks’ book as evidence that during a zombie pandemic, shopping malls are one place that would be heavily populated by the walking dead.
Case closed.
#2
patlike
14/02/08, 10:30 am
Heh.
I really can’t see this going to distance. New Line’s chancing its arm here.