Honesty is the best policy. Amusement with the misfortunes of those you don't like (without actively making it worse for them because you aren't a dick) is the second best policy.
Case dismissed! Discovery and Tardigrade game "not similar"
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Honesty is the best policy. Amusement with the misfortunes of those you don't like (without actively making it worse for them because you aren't a dick) is the second best policy.
Several people here seem to be applying that standard to the Plaintiff'.Yeah, nothing like the "presumption of innocence" or anything like that...obviously CBS is guilty until proven otherwise...
I'm not a huge fan of CBS, but I'm of the camp that thinks they didn't rip anything off. I learned about tardigrades from Animal Planet shows and other such science entertainment at most like four years ago. I thought, 'Hey! What a cool animal!' I'm thinking this guy had the same thought around the same time, but with the addition of, 'I should write a game about one!' in which he uses some science fiction-y ideas (which were likely gleaned from a love of science fiction, like say, Star Trek) and the color blue. Totally within the realm of possibility that a writer would come to the same conclusion, but within a script...borrowing ideas from previous Star Trek. If one can accept that possibility, then the similarities between the two products look more and more like coincidences. I think that's way more believable than any of the writing staff even KNOWING about this game.
I'm sure this guy truly believes he got ripped off, but I doubt that's what happened.
I'm sure this guy truly believes he got ripped off, but I doubt that's what happened.
No, the judge would then have to recuse him/herself.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that there are absolutely zero people who like Discovery who are happy about this lawsuit. I'm not sure why anyone would even give a thought to CBS other than they don't like what CBS is doing with the franchise. *shrug*
I really don't care about the lawsuit. They'll either settle for an undisclosed miniscule-to-them sum or they'll bury the man in so much legal paperwork he'll never climb out of it. Either way it won't make a dent in production. This type of shit happens. The network and the producers expect it.
Perhaps. But, I'd rather see the evidence and not make any assumptions about either party.
I think there are 2 things in play
1. He knows how everything in his game was going to work and play out many elements of which are unreleased so he is likely seeing more similarities some of which could not be copied since they were not released but being so close to the game he sees them.
2. He is concerned when he does publish the game people in general will think he got the idea from ST instead of it being a cool idea they haven't seen before and it will hurt sales of the game. This is a valid concern of his and likely will happen but that isn't the fault of CBS.
Marvel obviously stole the idea from DSC!
No they stole it from the abscure game so Anas needs to add Marvel to his defendent list
Because it feels like another excuse to tear CBS and Discovery down.
It's a thread started by a guy who's taking pleasure in the idea of CBS losing the case. Obviously that's going to draw responses saying they don't feel the case has merit. That doesn't make those opinions defensive or indicate that they secretly think the case is going somewhere.
Probably for similar 'Reasons' that others are immediately assuming that CBS is guilty.
"Personal Opinions"
I remember an old story about jumping to the "Isle of Conclusions"...
One will almost always find that getting back, involves a very long swim across
the "Channel of Self Incrimination".
After reading the blog of the author of the Tardigrade game, what I'm really afraid is that the folks overeager to bury Discovery who commented on his blog may have put him in some trouble by giving him both terrible legal advice, and reasserting his delusion that his game had been copied. He was incited by a seeming majority of his readership to launch a frivolous lawsuit against a giant corporation over an imaginary grievance measuring in the superficial similarity between his game and the show. I'm afraid that's not going to end well for him. If he had gone there on his own, I wouldn't care much, but going around and posting “They clearly copied your game, you should sue” on his blog repeatedly is a bit irresponsible.
I'm not saying there isn't at least some possibility he wins something, possibly in a settlement out of court. Copyright law as it is is slightly insane – arguably not insane enough for the “Tardigrades” guy to win his suit, but remembering the lengths I've gone to be as sure as possible that my creative works haven't violated it,¹ I wouldn't go for complete certainty. And settlements are decided on less sound grounds than the law, so one of those might be an actual possibility still.
(Even if he were to miraculously win something, I'd still find the claims of legitimate plagiarism ridiculous. Wouldn't feel much sorry for CBS, though.)
¹ Slightly pointless exercise when I haven't published them.
Yeah...that's not what's happening. I'm sure that the concern for his well-being is appreciated, though.
Lots of stuff "goes to court" - that's sorta how the legal system works. What happens AT court is anybody's guess, although in this instance, I think one could reasonably bet on CBS prevailing.
Unless the Tardigrade is Republican. Then he'll just blame the residents of the Quantum Water Bear Ghetto of using "fake news".
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