On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Steve Cotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wikipedia page for the non-Doom character: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsien-Ko > > Kyonshi (OpenArena) and Hsien-Ko (Darkstalkers) are Jiang Shi or > Chinese vampires. There's an entire genre of horror monsters that > look like that.
The Wikipedia article you linked to says that it's a very specific character of a very specific copyrighted series. Whether it is its own genre or not is not at debate, but the copyright violation should be clear. It'd be fine for a completely original character to appear in OA, but not a blatent ripoff of a copyrighted one. > I don't see a closer similarity in the characters to Darkstalkers > and Doom than a generic vampire and space marine. What exactly is a "generic space marine"? They don't exist in real life (yet), so the only way to display one is in fantasy (including games). It's not exactly hard to take a look at the Doom title screen and the OpenArena character and see that the OA character is obviously based on the former: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Doom-1-.gif Or even the Quake III Arena character "Doom": http://www.freewebs.com/fatmanq3/doom.jpg > PS - Given this is a copyright violation report, I'd assumed that > the clip on YouTube would be an official trailer, but it doesn't > look to be so. Yes, I considered that when submitting the initial report. You might argue "fair use" as it's a short clip plus the uploader (leilei, same as the OpenArena maintainer in fact) giving his comments about it ("kicks hiney"). Besides this, it would be a youtube.com issue and not a Debian issue... (I know it's a lame excuse, but really it was the video that made me notice the identical character as in OA) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
