• FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There is no way EA owns the rights to every implementation of “Lewis Carrol but macabre!” any more than Rhys Frake-Waterfield could stop me from making a film where Winnie The Pooh kills people with a chainsaw.

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      1 year ago

      That’s a good angle to speculate on it. But the main thing to take away is this: Do they want to pursue this angle, or are they more willing to sit on this IP until the end of the time? I mean, sitting on an IP is a whole lot more legally safe than, you know, attempting to make some new wild legally-distinct numbers-filed-off things from it. (PROTIP: EA does this really well.)

      And more importantly, is American McGee willing to rework this whole thing from the ground up?

      Speaking as a random creative person: If I was in American McGee’s position, I’d drop this stuff right away and go think of other ventures. The moneybagmen sadly won.